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Jan 19, 2009 1:03 pm US/Eastern

Local Residents Board Buses For Obama Inauguration

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― All eyes are on Washington where the inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama is now less than a day away.
 
The stage is set in Washington D.C. for the historic occasion.

At least one local group will be there to watch Obama be sworn in.

The Corporate Planners met up this morning to make a trip to Washington D.C.

Many of them took off from work because they wouldn't miss this chance for the world.

In the parking lot of Parkway Center Mall this morning, it looked a lot like the adult version of the first day of school -- people holding bags and waiting on a bus.

"It's like traveling on the bus when I was a kid. I had everything ready, my cameras, my lunch," said passenger Dr. Joyce Meggerson Moore.

Dr. Joyce Meggerson Moore is one of 55 people who showed up today to catch a charter bus to Washington D.C. for the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.

"The first African American President of the United States, that's number one, and he's so intelligent and able to strategize and come all this way," said Moore.

Moore wasn't going to let millions of people in Washington, traffic or cold weather slow her down from meeting up with her niece and taking in this moment.

"I could take the easy way and watch it on television but I wanted to be there to experience it and the excitement of it all," said Moore.

For fellow passenger Willie Singletary this trip brings things full circle.

He remembers when people of color couldn't sit on the bus where they wanted.

Now he's riding a bus with the freedom to sit where he wants to go see the new president.

"See the spirit that has transpired since Barack has come this far and in remembrance of the struggles that has taken place in the 60s up until present day," said Singletary.

And the fact that this inauguration comes right after Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior's birthday is icing on the cake.

"Martin Luther King was the catalyst for where we are headed today," said Singletary.
 
Now once Obama is sworn in, then the real work begins but the passengers are hopeful.

"He has a big challenge as everyone says but I don't worry so much about it because I believe he can do it," said Moore.

They should arrive in the nation's capital by early evening.

Obama will be sworn in at noon tomorrow.

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