Unless you've been living under a rock the past 12 hours, you know that Osama bin Laden is dead. As President Obama made his speech last night a crowd began to gather on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House front door. By the time his speech ended, the crowd numbered in the thousands. I hopped bikeshare (by far the
best way get there) and went down, to snap a few pictures and soak in the atmosphere.
If you've seen the news, you might have heard that there was a lot of cheering and chanting. There was, but it was by a relatively small minority of people there. Mostly people were just there to be there, to be together with their countrymen at an important time.
Getting good pictures was extremely difficult. I didn't think to bring a tripod, the lighting was awful, and it was crowded. Whatever. Better to have fuzzy pictures than none at all. Scroll down to see them.
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