today is an amazing day... not for me, but for me... not for you, but for you... not for anyone, but for everyone... it is a day where we begin to realize that time makes all things possible... and that hope -- faith, if you will, is more powerful than desire... it is a day when i can say, i am proud that i served my country for 6 years... when, for once, i felt truly connected to the process... when my fellow citizens did not let me down, but believed... believed in the hope of a new start... a new direction... a new way or us to live together and with the world... we can be better tan our fathers... our mothers... our predecessors... and it