apmom wrote:
It was brilliant and from the heart.  I don't know about anyone else but when he started singing Amazing Grace, I stood up and sang with him and cried.  When he talked about how these 9 dead lived and died in Grace, I cried.  I felt his pain, really felt his pain and think the over 5500 people there and many at home watching also felt his pain.   There could have been no other President that could have given that eulogy because they could not really understand the place he was coming from.  The place those 9 people came from.  Only someone that has live that life, felt that racial discrimination, lived the life of constant worry about whether they would get that job, get into that school, get out of the ghetto, and all the other things that someone who lives that life can feel can understand where that place is.  I lived in that place for about a year and it is ugly.  It was scary.  I rips a person's self worth to shreds in a matter of days.  Literally days.  And I am white.  But where I lived I wasn't in the majority, I was the minority of one out of a few thousand.  I have tried all my life to not forget that brief time.  It was a lesson I need to be reminded of constantly.  It was a lesson worth learning, regardless of the pain and fear I felt during that year.

I had the day off because I had to report for possible jury duty.

After a few hours at the courthouse I was released and got home just in time to watch this entire ceremony live.

There are times when you know something historic is happening while it is happening. This was one of those moments.