Fernandez celebrates Flag Day

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Yesterday, President Leonel Fernandez, together with thousands of Dominican students, celebrated Flag Day during a special celebration at Santo Domingo's Independencia Park. The celebrations included a military parade, the singing of the Dominican National Anthem and a speech by Juan Daniel Balcacer, director of the Permanent Commission on Dominican Heritage. The first Dominican flag designed was similar to the Haitian flag and was used by the underground movement "La Trinitaria," but that version was modified and an original variation of today's flag first flew over the DR on 27 February, 1844.

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