D.C. flag  AWOL at  military  ceremony

D.C. residents Tomi Rucker and Michael Boyd beamed with pride as their son walked out for his basic-training commencement from the Great Lakes Naval Station in Illinois. One by one, flags were presented to denote the home states of the recruits, eliciting cheers from pockets of supporters. But Jonathan M. Rucker and his parents saw no flag bearer with the distinctive flag of the District, its three red stars and two red bars on a white background.

Tomi Rucker, a Washington, D.C. Navy mom, holds a picture of her son, Jonathan Matthew Rucker, at the D.C. World War I Memorial on Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. She came to the memorial to talk about the inconsistent flying of the D.C. flag at military graduations, specifically mentioning how sad she and her husband--fourth generation Washingtonians--were when the D.C. flag was not included in her son's boot camp graduation when the flags from the other recruits' states were. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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