Inaugural Eve: Remembering Shane and Thousands More

A beautiful sight. The field of flags on the National Mall.

The Biden Inaugural Committee installed almost 200,000 flags to cover the National Mall. The Mall is illuminated by 56 pillars of light to represent America’s states and territories

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Terrell Shaw
Remembering Shayne.

Ingrid Goldberg
Thank you so much Terrell Shaw. Crying crying crying

Love

Pamela Davis
Honoring and remembering those 400,000+ souls, I turned on ALL the lights around my home (inside and out). Remembering Veronica!

Pamela Davis

Jim Geist
Remembering Kyle Lyle Thomas, a friend.

Kimberly Jo Everett
My Dad...

Emily Robinson
Remembering Dick our favorite Poptart 

Sara Harbin Pickett
Remembering this couple and their sweet family that I have grown to love. https://hometownheadlines.com/.../adairsville-couple.../

HOMETOWNHEADLINES.COM
Services scheduled for Adairsville couple, both battling COVID, who died 30 minutes apart. Included: Obituaries for Tammy and Willis Worley.
Services scheduled for Adairsville couple, both battling COVID, who died 30 minutes apart. Included: Obituaries for Tammy and Willis Worley.

Emily Robinson
Sara Harbin Pickett goodness how heartbreaking

Beckie Gurley
Sara Harbin Pickett they lived just down the road from us. We only met them a few times. But they were always so nice.

Beckie Gurley
I’ve lost 3 friends... I hope I lose no more...

Terrell Shaw
Beckie Gurley I am so sorry!

Paul Culotta
So glad we are getting a President who has genuine empathy. Very moving memorial.

Beckie Gurley
Paul Culotta yes it was. Trump finally mentioned the people who have died from the “China virus” today. First time ever! Wonder what caused that?? The entire send off for Trump was very strange. Especially the song “I did it my way” playing as the plane flew away! Now we just have to wait and see if he will toss in the last minute pardons for him and his family, and good old faithful Rudy Giuliani...

Paul Culotta
Beckie Gurley Yes, playing “YMCA” at the send-off was pretty wacky also. Not surprisingly, it looked like a very small crowd at Andrews to see him off.

Beckie Gurley
Paul Culotta all of his maggats are probably being investigated or in jail..

Gleaning Facebook: Women's March

Per NPR news: Washington transit officials say transit is busier today (Woman's March) than yesterday (Inauguration Day). And that is just in DC. My daughter is participating in the march in Atlanta. Many Romans are marching in Mentone AL of all places. Over 600 marches nationwide. Trump is president by virtue of a perfect storm of lies, FBI intervention, and Russian intrigue. The people oppose him more than any previous president on his first day in office.

Kimberly Jo Everett

Kimberly Jo Everett
I marched in Memphis!

Susan Polkinghorn
Very, very well said!

Katie S. Kimbrough
Is there a march in Atlanta?

Susan Polkinghorn
Yes! Now! Ending at the Capital.

Katie S. Kimbrough
Ok I thought he meant the only March here was in Mentone.

Susan Polkinghorn
More than 600 marches across the country! He is such a loser.

Terrell Shaw
My daughter is at the one in Atlanta. I just listened (on TV) as John Lewis addressed that big group. 100s of thousands in Washington and marches all over the country and the world.

Luis Schnitzer Da Silva
Terrell Shaw fantastic I really hope those numbers are high and true

David Matheny
60,000 in ATL at the latest estimate.

Katie S. Kimbrough
David Matheny whoa! That's a great number!

Terrell Shaw
David Matheny It looked like more than that on the tv videos.... that stream of humanity just rolled unendingly across the screen! 

Susan Polkinghorn
Yes! Now! Ending at the Capital.

Katie S. Kimbrough
Ok I thought he meant the only March here was in Mentone.

Hilda Atkins Moore
Time will surely tell it all........I remain calm.

Susan Polkinghorn
Hilda, with all due respect I remain engaged, active, and vocal. I cannot imagine feeling calm with this buffoon as POTUS.

Hilda Atkins Moore
I am 82 yrs. old and I am happy to leave it in your capable hands.

Ellen Henderson Garrard
My granddaughter, Marley, is headed to Chattanooga with her Rome High friends. So proud of them!

Chris Goodwin
You are an intelligent man. Can you really not link the demographics of Washington DC to the ratio of attendance of the last two presidents? Of course the first inauguration of Obama was a milestone in our country. One of which anyone would loved to have witnessed. It should have held epic attendance. The second inauguration wasn't as populated. Washington DC has an 80% democratic population. If inaugurations were held in Alabama, would you expect there to be great attendance for the next democrat. Your repeated posts and hourly memes are not reflective of such an eloquent speaker and educated man, but more of an emotional blabber with silliness of Russian influence and racism. I fully expect protest and disproval, but some of your posts don't fit the man. I'm trying to not post anything political, but the attendance memes portraying that America isn't supportive of the POTUS, is missing a few important facts.

Howard Smith
And, my wife is in Washington with friends!

Terrell Shaw
I have many friends there today. As I had many friends in Washington on January 20, 2009. I suspect Barack Obama were inaugurated in Anchorage there would have been an amazing crowd. But I am glad that many of his supporters in DC were able to attend both of his inaugurations.

BTW, as I wrote elsewhere the fact of Trump's relatively small inaugural turnout is only important in light of his narcissistic predictions and his post-inaugural exaggerations.

Laurie Craw
Yes, that's the point. If he wasn't such an "It's all about ME!" braggart, unbecoming the high office he holds, and a liar, comparing the numbers of attendees at his inauguration and the Women's March would not be necessary. Otherwise, a big crowd would just be a big crowd.

Victoria Stanz Abernathy
Cave Spring is represented up there also. My niece and friends are in Chicago. Wish I were flush and younger!

David Alan Hicks
Here's a link you might like. http://www.cnn.com/.../womens-march-around-the-world-orig...

CNN.COM

Women's Marches around the world - CNN Video

Victoria Stanz Abernathy
Seven continents!

Bill Barker
Hm

Gleaning Facebook: Inauguration Eve 2017

Thank you Mr. President. I am so proud to have voted for and campaigned for your historic presidency, twice. America has a way to go still, but, oh!, it is more perfect in so many ways than eight years ago.

Our nation has been incredibly blessed to have the steady, patriotic, wise, principled leadership of Barack Obama for the last eight years. God bless Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and their families.

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Oh my. So many great memes out there tonight.

Some are expressing their unease with laughs, some with rants. Surely no more scary political moment in our history since March 3, 1861. This time it is not Lincoln speaking on Inauguration Day. I'm sure his writers will put some unifying words into the speech. He may remind us of Lincoln's or Jefferson's or -- no, not Obama's -- words. But we have seen during the transition that the Donald Trump we have seen is, indeed, the real Donald Trump.

So I'll read other speeches. And plan for resistance.

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." - Lincoln

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations." - Lincoln

'We are all Federalists, all Republicans.'" - Jefferson

"...there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America — there's the United States of America." - Obama

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I walked into the den, switched on the TV, and witnessed a nauseating sight: the Great Narcissist saluting the Great Emancipator at the Lincoln Memorial. God save our great nation from this evil *****grabber, tax evader, congenital liar, loser of the vote of WE the People (by nearly three million ballots), petulant child, obsessive tweeter, transition failure, business failure, and the only future-President to display his sexual insecurities so blatantly to the entire nation. ("I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee.")

What a wimp. What a child. What a crook. What a psycho.

I have great respect for the presidency, for our peaceful transition of power -- even when the the Electoral College produces an outrage against republican values.

But there is no requirement of patriots to respect an immoral, unethical, dishonest, crude, admittedly criminal, narcissistic, authoritarian boor who managed to gain the office through a perfect storm of lies, foreign intervention, and chance. As a matter of fact it is incumbent on patriots to resist this monstrosity wherever legally and ethically possible.

Yes, we must accept, at noon, that the spoiled child is president, until heaven, Congress, the People, or the 25th or the 22nd Amendment intervenes. But I for one will remind my fellow Americans as often as possible of the man's moral illegitimacy.

John Countryman As will I.

Ann Perkins Niemeier Don't watch!

 

CeCe Baker Totally agree; and, "illegitimacy" is the word.

Laurie Craw The inauguration ceremony will never be the same for me because the Office of the President of the United States of America has been so degraded by this unworthy, vulgar, immoral man whose oath to our country will mean nothing because his word means nothing.

Terrell Shaw That's exactly how I feel. I have stubbornly wished even Reagan and Bush2 well when my heart was breaking... this is different.

Harriett Haase I think it is time you realized we have a new president and get behind him with prayer not your rants. It is my understanding that God raises up leaders. Why not give him a chance to prove his leadership ability.

Jim Villella Ms. Haase, I was tempted to send you the text of this man who you claim God raised up when he talked about what he tried to do to a woman and what he does to women, but politeness and decency holds me back. This may come as a surprise to you but he deeply offended many, many Americans. I for one, as a veteran, was and remain deeply offended by his cavalier treatment of war hero John McCain and the Gold Star family and his months-long campaign that has turned Americans against their own government. In the process, he insulted a sitting President of the U.S. by lying about his birthplace. So take a deep breath and get used to those who do not think God had anything to do with "raising up" such a narcissistic megalomaniac expressing their Constitutionally protected right to question his motives.

Terrell Shaw The man has had since Nov 8 to show some tiny inkling of being "raised up" to the position he will assume. Still he tweets juvenile, shallow, mean-spirited, thoughtless, dangerous, asinine, excremental sewage. So, till he finds some kind of redemption, some hint of human concern, some inkling of motives beyond jealousy, hate, narcissism, and insecurity, --- till then --- I will resist. I can do no other and face myself in the mirror.

Terrell Shaw Good Lord, Harriett, this spoiled child bragged on tape about his sexual assaults, he mocked a handicapped man, he tweeted insults at the slightest disagreement from any & everyone, he has insulted our allies and embraced our enemies. He is a seventy year old man who has been in the public eye for many decades and has never shown the slightest civic spirit. He has had ample "chance."

David Matheny I'll pray for Trump to amend his ways and have his Eyes Opened to our Nation's Diversity and Opened to the Devastation his Policies will cause to America. ...and Trump is employed by US, the American People. We owe him nothing and His Office, Everything.

Glenette Reece Good advice!

John Countryman Trump has no idea what leadership means. Obama practiced servant leadership. Trump will practice demagoguery.

Suanne Bierman Laqueur He's had chances all his life to serve the public and took none. He's never done anything that doesn't directly benefit him or aggrandize himself. He doesn't know how to lead, only how to bully. He's highly unlikely to change his basic human nature at age 70. He disgusts me. That's highly unlikely to change either.

Ken Gossett Lets all pray that for the next few years our safety and stability will be watched and secured by God. I don't trust Trump to do it.

Ralph Davis Only an epiphany or other life changing experience will change who he has been for the last 50 years. It is imperative that WE continue to voice our feelings, respectfully ( although it's hard to go high when they go low), be squeaky wheels to get the oil to which the party in power must respond. Always

Susan Polkinghorn This Patriot will resist tomorrow at the Wonen's March with a sign that says "TRUMP WAS INSTALLED, NOT ELECTED."

Deanne E Daniell Well said, Terrell!

Bill Barker Hmmmm

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Gleaning Facebook: The Inauguration

 Today is a great day! We celebrate the heritage of non-violence and civil rights on MLK Day while we also celebrate our peaceful system that inaugurates a democratically-elected President to another four-year term.

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Singing along with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir... Glory!

Wow. The power of music never fails to astound. If you didn't hear this find it on YouTube this evening. His truth is marching on...

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Yay, Joe! (And Justice Sotomayor)

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Sweet Baby James and our National Hymn.

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21 guns! Way to go, Mr. President! Way to go, America!

Christy Davis

Ironic, considering the latest issue that's got the conservatives in a froth...

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How many people?!

Freddie Ashley

You mean in attendance at the inauguration? Last estimate I heard on ABC was 800,000.

Terrell

Wow!

Ann Pullen

Hard to even move your arms it was so crowded!

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Self-evident truths are not self-executing. Each generation has a job to do.

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We, the People.

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Our journey is not complete.

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We must act.

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You and I as citizens have the power to set this nation's course.

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My Country 'Tis of Thee

Nora Matthews

Sweet land of liberty

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I remember Robert Frost doing this. One sun.

Terrell Shaw
A Gift Outright?

Terrell Shaw
"Pencil-yellow"

Terrell Shaw
One wind. Our breath.

Terrell Shaw
One sky.

Terrell Shaw
One country... together.

John Countryman
I remember that day like yesterday!

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OH MY. A beautiful interpretation of our National Anthem. I usually like it very straight. This was my favorite stylized version of the anthem. Gorgeous.

Terrell Shaw
And the embarrassing thing is that, tho I have been aware that there is a singer named Beyonce, I could not have picked her out of a line-up. I could now. A beautiful, talented woman.

Natalie A. A. Thiele
i'm with you-- i like a non-embellished version, but Beyonce did an excellent job. looks like she had technical difficulties to overcome, too, so extra excellent.

John Paul Schulz
I liked the way she hit the high note right on and then went on and hit it an octave higher just to show it warn't no fluke.

Dan Bevels
It was indeed worth the effort they put forth in the studio to perfect it. http://www.usatoday.com/.../beyonce-buzz-was-she.../1855123/

USATODAY.COM

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Mr. President, you gave a beautiful, challenging speech. America it is time to act. We can fuss and fight and disagree. That is democracy. But we must reach compromise and act. Even Great Compromise.

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