Inauguration 2009

At noon on Inauguration Day, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 -- the date and time are defined by the Twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States. This was one of those moments in our lifetime that we will remember where we were on such a historic day. I was at work and our office has TV's in the lobby so a big group of us watched it together. Many others were watching from their desks and at one point the IT guys thought the network might go down because all the streaming media going on! The feeling of being part of the moment, even watching it on TV was amazing. Inauguration day coupled with Martin Luther King's birthday puts things in quite the historical perspective. And just think, the next generation will know a country where they know that anyone regardless of race or gender can be president and they won't think twice about it. Okay, maybe I'm getting a little ahead of myself as we have not had a woman president, yet. LOL!