The winter sun glinted off the flag pin on Barack Obama's lapel as he rose in the sudden hush and stepped forward to take the oath as our new President. He fumbled over the words for a moment, but that made him seem only more human as hundreds of thousands in the Mall began waving as many American flags as have ever been waved in one place at one time. The vast sea of flags kept waving as the cannons fired the 21-gun salute and the Marine band played "Hail to the Chief" for our most fully American President. Back...