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While talking with Martin Kritzer before Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration he told me he loved to wave his flag. So I kept an eye on him and later shot that but when he saluted I ran behind him for a more symbolic image that better told the story.

Martin Kritzer, 72, salutes during the playing of “God Bless America” after Barack Obama became President of the United States of America at the inauguration in Washington, DC on Jan. 20, 2009. Senior citizens at Menorah Park Retirement center in Beachwood watched in the Creative Arts Center. (Scott Shaw / The Plain Dealer)