We can't stick a flag in it and call it won.

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To aid my adventure I'd been given a wooden walking stick complete with a small Japanese flag and bells that would tinkle with each step, as though I were an Alpine cow.

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Most stick around to take photos in front of the large American flag next to the podium, or a portrait of President Obama that is hanging on the wall.

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