"At the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue, more than 50 officers charged when several in the crowd began climbing the ship mast there and replacing Navy flags with a black and red anarchist flag '(David Montgomery, The Washington Post, January 21, 2001).

Protests at the U.S. Navy Memorial, 2001 Presidential Inauguration (Pictures courtesy of Will Lyster, January 20, 2001).

Protesters tore down the U.S. Naval Memorial Signal flags in order to raise their own flags - The Navy really had a lot to due with the final election results... (Will Lyster, January 23, 2001).