Tag: inauguration
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A place of honor
Black Airmen coming to Obama’s Inauguration By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE When the Tuskegee Airmen, the all-black force of elite pilots, emerged from combat in World War II, they faced as much discrimination as they had before the war. It was not until six decades later that their valor was recognized and they received the Congressional…
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Another inauguration morning
Inaugural Poem, 20 January 1993 On the Pulse of the Morning by Maya Angelou A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom…