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President-elect Barack Obama speaks to the crowd gathered at the
Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Jan. 18,
2009, during the inaugural opening ceremonies.
More
than 5,000 men and women in uniform are providing military
ceremonial support to the presidential inauguration, a tradition
dating back to George Washington's 1789 inauguration.
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photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Larry Simmons |