Inauguration Tuskegee Airman
George Hickman cheers members of the University of Washington gymnastics team on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Hickman, 84, is one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the country's first black military pilots and air maintenance personnel who fought in World War II. He and dozens of the approximately 330 living Tuskegee Airmen are taking Obama up on his invitation to attend next week's inauguration. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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