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I'm not old enough to remember Kennedy or Camelot, but it must have been a bit like this. This week I've never been so happy to be an American. There were 2 million people at the Capital. Two million people!!! God knows how many people watched on television. I watched it on TV, because I couldn't get to D.C.. I'm sorry I didn't go.
Another thing happened to me that puts its all in perspective. I teach at a little technical collage and I talk to the guards when I come and go. One guard (who I will call Sam) and I have been talking about the election for months. He was adamant that America was not ready for a black president. Sam is an old black man and when I went into school to give him more hell this week for not believing he started to say something and then just hugged me.
That's my inauguration story.
No matter how bad things get, how horrible things seem...sometimes we get stuff right.
A Decade of Steampunk with Steampunk Scholar
7 years ago
I remember Kennedy and Camelot!
ReplyDeleteI remember Kennedy's inaugural address clearly:
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
I hope this era can muster up the same sense of public service. We're gonna need it.