U.S. Army Sgt. James Bishop from the 229th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, wipes away tears as he watches the inauguration of President Barack Obama at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009."My mother always wanted to be here," said Bishop, 39, an African-American from Washington, D.C. "She always wanted this to happen, and she said it was going to happen one day," he said. "Unfortunately, she passed before this time came." Across Iraq, many of the 140,000 U.S. service members here watched the inaugural ceremony on television sets in dining halls and break rooms or on the Web at large installations with Internet service.
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