From across the United Kingdom, the police family gathered in Manchester - an act of solidarity between colleagues and recognition of the risks all officers swear to accept whenever they wear the badge.

BBC: Public service and personal sacrifice

But while we praise, worship and wear our Obama buttons and swear we have overcome, barely more than half of our kids are graduating from high school, according to America's Promise Alliance, the children's advocacy organization founded by retired Gen.

CNN: Commentary: Race and the American dream

The filing includes a copy of a previously filed affidavit of a child psychologist hired by the Miami relatives who had predicted Elian would be forced to wear a bandana and be ordered to swear allegiance to "Los Pioneros" (the Pioneers) and "undergo formal indoctrination in Communist ideology" if returned to Cuba.

CNN: Miami relatives continue to pursue contact with Elian

And the most poignant moment was the manful William Rehnquist, unable to wear a tie and making his way down the long marble steps to swear in the president.

WSJ: Way Too Much God