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Alaska, you are seriously killing my buzz.
(I spent the last third or so of Obama's speech crying quietly to myself. I think I started when he started thanking his family, and I just got new bursts all the way through -- when he said a new spirit of service and I realized I was hearing and watching my generation's ask not what your country can do for you, our Gettysburg, our . . . That's a defining moment I saw last night.
I finally calmed down enough to start screaming, especially when the mob chanting "Yes we can!" walked by and went into the frat quad.
And then I talked to my mom on the phone, and I told her about crying, and she said that this was like nothing in her lifetime. "You had 'ask not what your country!'" I said. "Yes," she said, "and that was inspiring, but this is the culmination of all that, of the '60s, and I couldn't be gladder you're here for it."
At which point I started tearing up again. I'm choking up now writing it.)
I'm pretty proud to be an American right now -- but it's looking harder and harder to be proud of being an Alaskan, and that . . . that sucks. A lot.
(I spent the last third or so of Obama's speech crying quietly to myself. I think I started when he started thanking his family, and I just got new bursts all the way through -- when he said a new spirit of service and I realized I was hearing and watching my generation's ask not what your country can do for you, our Gettysburg, our . . . That's a defining moment I saw last night.
I finally calmed down enough to start screaming, especially when the mob chanting "Yes we can!" walked by and went into the frat quad.
And then I talked to my mom on the phone, and I told her about crying, and she said that this was like nothing in her lifetime. "You had 'ask not what your country!'" I said. "Yes," she said, "and that was inspiring, but this is the culmination of all that, of the '60s, and I couldn't be gladder you're here for it."
At which point I started tearing up again. I'm choking up now writing it.)
I'm pretty proud to be an American right now -- but it's looking harder and harder to be proud of being an Alaskan, and that . . . that sucks. A lot.