A More Perfect Union

Like Barack Obama, I too was born in 1961 during the nuclear age and the heart of the Cold War. I was a baby during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Kennedy assassination. I was a child during the Vietnam War, the Moon landing, and the race riots in Detroit. I was a teenager during Watergate, the gas crisis, and recession of the 1970's. I was a young adult when the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended. I was 40 years old when the planes crashed on September 11th, 2001. And now, along with all those historic events, we can add the election to the Presidency of the first African-American on November 4th, 2008. Yesterday, the United States of America turned a new page and added a historic chapter in the history of a great nation. The election of Barack Obama as our nation's 44th President forever changes what America was, is, and will be. The significance of yesterday's vote cannot be overstated. It will take years and many scholars to put it in to full context but know this: America has become a better, more perfect Union.

May God bless America and may God bless Barack Obama and Joe Biden as their work has only just begun.