Day Of Celebration

Day Of Celebration (Added: January 20, 2009)

Record crowds showed up to watch Barack Obama take the oath of office. It is a day of celebration that started early this morning and will continue into the night. CBS' Drew Levinson is at the ina (more)

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Record crowds showed up to watch Barack Obama take the oath of office. It is a day of celebration that started early this morning, and will continue into the night. CBS' Drew Levinson is at the inaugural parade.

By: Katie Hammond | WKRG-TV
Published: January 20, 2009

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama leads off an inaugural parade
down America's main street that pays homage to pioneers who paved
the way for the nation's first black president.
Re-enactors from a black Civil War regiment, World War II's
surviving Tuskegee Airmen and Freedom Riders who battled for civil
rights are assembled to follow Obama's limousine down Pennsylvania
Avenue from the Capitol to the White House.
More than 13,000 people from all 50 states will travel a
1.5-mile parade route jammed with joyous onlookers since dawn.
Among the marching bands and military units are acrobats and even a
drill team pushing whimsically decorated lawn mowers.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)