An Inauguration to Remember

Published: 2/16/2009 12:00:00 AM

Today is Feb. 16, President’s Day. It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly four weeks since our new president was inaugurated into office. Juanita Cannon, a KCDC board member, was one of several Knoxville residents fortunate enough to attend President Obama’s inauguration in person. She joined a crowd estimated at more than a million people, people who joined together in the frigid cold to share in the historic moment when Barack Obama became the 44th president and the first African-American elected to the post.

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Alvin Nance, Executive Director and CEO, Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation

An Inauguration to Remember

Today is Feb. 16, President’s Day. It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly four weeks since our new president was inaugurated into office.

Juanita Cannon, a KCDC board member, was one of several Knoxville residents fortunate enough to attend President Obama’s inauguration in person. She joined a crowd estimated at more than a million people, people who joined together in the frigid cold to share in the historic moment when Barack Obama became the 44th president and the first African-American elected to the post.

Juanita says that it was a very special time, and one that she will never forget.

I venture to guess that most Americans – even those of us who huddled around television sets to catch the action – will remember the inauguration. It was indeed a special time in our nation’s history.

Now that President Obama is going about the business of running our country in these difficult times, I hope that we will all join together to wish him much success.

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