It didn't matter

By Quinn Jacobson

As the sun came up people came in crowds from all over the nation and possibly the world. I knew it would be very cold but I also knew the morale as we went on the train and to the National Mall and the inauguration was the highest I've ever seen and will probably ever see. The feeling in the air was something you feel once in a lifetime that most people thought would never come but oh it did!

As we stood in the Mall all the members on congress filed in and the music played in the backgroundl. Even though we were far away from the action, the echo from the capitol on the Jumbotron speakers made it seem as if we were actually close.

You didn't care if your feet hurt, all you wanted to hear was Obama says those words that would make him President of the United States. Of course by then I had heard his name cheered many times. As former presidents filed in to take their seats, you could tell that all the world had its eyes set on the Capito--you could feel it in the airl. And when Obama did finally put one hand on the Bible and raise the other to take his oath, we all feel silent. All eyes were on the President, all ears turned to his words.  It didn't matter to me that my feet hurt from the cold and that there was no wear to sit. It didn't matter to me that I was hungry and tired. I just felt incredibly lucky to bea witness to one of the most historic moments in history.

PHOTO: Kid Reporter Quinn Jacobson and Scholastic Kids Press Corps Editor Suzanne Freeman at the 2009 Inauguration on Tuesday, January 20.