The election of the 46th President is finally over, so to speak, amid the disbelief about voter results. I watched the inauguration and proudly did so. I did vote for a candidate, the majority spoke, and we have a new administration for the next four years.
We watched the chaos at the U.S. Capitol during the election results tally, and the amount of security forces in place for the inauguration and were in disbelief about how we act as a civilized country. People do have protest rights. But peaceful protest rights!
I was proud to watch the inauguration and will still stand, even in my living room, remove my hat, place my hand over my heart, and recite “The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America,” that I learned in the first grade at Bluewater Elementary School in the 1960s, along with the program’s orators.
I still think this is the greatest country in the world.
I watched Lady Gaga sing the National Anthem during the ceremony and I got tears in my eyes. How beautiful and inspiring the way it was done.
The background was full of masked witnesses, smiling I am sure about the event while cautioning about contracting Covid-19. This coronavirus has mutated and still spreading like a wildfire even while millions of vaccines are administered. In the background, the COVID was as active as the inauguration was in the foreground. It’s been 12 months now since the first reported COVID-19 case in our country. We will survive both...
...the pandemonium and the pandemic.