WASHINGTON (Jan. 18, 2009) President-elect Barack Obama speaks to the crowd gathered at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington during the Inaugural opening ceremonies. More than 5,000 men and women in uniform are providing military ceremonial support to the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, a tradition dating back to George Washington's 1789 Inauguration.
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