It was definitely a day to remember for a long, long time: history being made in front of our eyes, the scenes of DC with the many blockades on familiar streets, the fencing surrounding many monuments and significant American sites, complete with razor-wired tops, the armed military and police everywhere, the odd absence of the usual crowds of people lining the streets and stacked in and around the Mall..... The actual inauguration, with its solemnity also laced with a spirit and sense of genuine joy and happiness, the realization that our four-year-long national nightmare has finally come to an end......
Although I normally watch these inaugurations, four years ago I did not except very briefly to watch and listen to Jackie Evancho sing the National Anthem because I'm a fan of hers. I shut the television immediately after that, not interested in seeing the Orange Man take the oath of office (an oath he certainly has violated in so many ways). This year, I watched everything from about 10:30 AM on throughout the day. Such a refreshing change in attitude and approach, and a needed one, and a huge contrast to what we all watched in horror two weeks ago occurring in the same location.
I still can't quite believe that now at last we are rid of that orange man, that he no longer holds the office that he never should have held in the first place, and that he's well and truly gone now......(except for the formalities of the Senate voting on impeaching him and stripping him of a few more privileges). Good riddance to him!!