An Inauguration Story - Tales from the Tunnel
January 20, 2009 was a morning unlike any I’ve ever experienced – and not simply because our country was about to inaugurate our first African-American president. Or because his policies imply that significant change is afoot. Or because the idea of “hope” that mobilized an entire generation of young voters was finally being realized.
All those are true, of course. But I’ll remember that morning as the one I spent freezing with thousands of others in the claustrophobic Third Street Tunnel on I-395.