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Firefighter s sign language Pledge of Allegiance was homage to her late father
Last Updated Jan 23, 2021 7:17 PM EST
When Georgia fire captain Andrea Hall delivered the Pledge of Allegiance on Inauguration Day, few people knew she would also do it in sign language. She wanted it to be a surprise.
Hall made two pledges on inauguration Day: One to the flag, and the other to a community close to home.
Hall said, I really just wanted to pay homage to the deaf and hard of hearing community. The words of the pledge are significant not just for us, but for them as well.
January 20, 2021
Joe Biden isn’t wasting time. On his first day in office, the newly inaugurated US president signed 17 executive actions. It’s not unprecedented for world leaders to get to work on day one, but the number of directives on Biden’s desk is much higher than usual. It took his recent predecessors weeks to sign 17 executive orders. Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton signed four executive orders or memos on their first day combined.
Biden’s executive orders vs Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton
The orders are wide ranging, including directives to reverse the “Muslim travel ban,” rejoining the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement, stopping construction on the border wall, and ending the Keystone XL pipeline. Many were clearly aimed at overturning Trump’s decisions.
Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that "democracy has prevailed" and summoning American resilience and unity to confront the deeply divided nation's historic confluence of crises.
Patricia Talorico, a writer for the Delaware News Journal, took a now-viral photograph more than 110 miles away from the nation’s capital as Biden took the oath of office on a family Bible used by his son.
Poignant moment: While Joe Biden gave his inauguration speech, a lone man in a uniform knelt at the Delaware grave of his son Beau. pic.twitter.com/QkCuJRHzTz Patricia Talorico (@PattyTalorico) January 20, 2021
Beau Biden, the former attorney general of Delaware and a rising political star, died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46. He also served in the Delaware Army National Guard, receiving the Bronze Star.
Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that "democracy has prevailed" and summoning American resilience and unity to confront the deeply divided nation's historic confluence of crises.