Off Topic: Moments in History

For my grandparents generation, the one moment that they always remember is where they were on December 7, 1941 - the day Pearl Harbor was attacked.

For my parents generation, those moments include the assassination of JFK and the Oklahoma City bombing.

For my generation, to this point, there has been but one moment that we will never forget, and it is a moment of great tragedy - the attacks on New York and the Pentagon on 9/11.  Tonight, though, we are all witness to another one of those great moments, one with a much more positive tone.  Forty years from now, I will be able to tell my grandchildren about the day that the United States officially ended the Civil Rights movement by electing an African-American President.

I generally don't get caught up in patriotic attitudes, but I have never been more proud to call myself an American than I am at this moment, this historic moment.  My prayer is that this election will be a harbinger of days in which we no longer even have to think of or talk about race as an issue again...