Memphians Celebrate - 'We Must Do' -- Civil Rights Veterans Impressed with President's Reverberating Call to Action

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WASHINGTON - From the steps of the Capitol, where Barack Obama took the oath of office to become the 44th president of the United States, a classic American scene formed.

Past the celebrities up so close (Denzel and Beyonce and Oprah and Jay-Z), on past the American heroes (the Medal of Honor recipients and the now-elderly Tuskegee Airmen, bundled for the cold) and far beyond the statue of Ulysses S. Grant on horseback, a crowd on The National Mall ("the people's lawn") estimated at more than 1 million shimmered under the cold, winter sun.

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Memphians Celebrate - 'We Must Do' -- Civil Rights Veterans Impressed with President's Reverberating Call to Action

Their roars would wash up the hill seconds after officials were introduced or words were spoken, responding to giant screens placed throughout the natio...

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