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LIVE: 'We're in a moment of history'
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama will be inaugurated today as the 44th president of the United States. The News is here on the National Mall to live-blog the ceremony. But perhaps more impressive than this unity, is the unity that Barack Obama has already, less than an hour into his presidency, has given over two million people that surround me. I turned to my friend and I told her that I feel like I know Barack Obama, that he is a friend. It seems, from others' calling his first name and cheering for Michelle, Malia and Sasha that they feel the same. Tears are flowing and it seems that everyone truly believes the words that our president is saying and the promises that he is making. "There is nothing to say — we're in a moment of history," Carmen Chambers '12 said. Everyone is bundled to avoid bitter winds. Patrons are lined against the reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. The JumboTron screens will be the only chance that I have of watching the Inauguration. The sea of patriotically-dressed people eagerly awaiting the action is, hopefully, tight enough to provide body heat for the rest of the morning. "It actually does make me want to cry when I think of all the patriotism and the hope," Charlotte Thun-Hohenstein '12 said. More to come after my hands defrost.