Tennessee Boys Get Inauguration Tix in Christmas Loot
source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/28/tennessee-boys-inauguration-tix-christmas-loot/
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Two young brothers got a Christmas surprise that few can lay claim to -- a pair of tickets to President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration.
The boys, 13-year-old Marcus Branch and his 8-year-old brother Myles, from Bartlett, Tenn., received the tickets as a gift from their grandmother, Shirley Mason.
"I wanted them to get an invitation, to have the presidential inauguration invitation that they could put in their memory books," Mason said. "I was hoping, but you never know."
Long before the first ballots were cast, Mason sent a letter to U.S. Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.), asking for tickets to the 56th Presidential Inauguration. Mason included her name, and the names of her daughter and son-in-law, Sonji and Anthony Branch, and their children, Marcus and Myles.
"We knew this was going to be a historic election, one way or the other," Mason said of her early bid for tickets.
Mason didn't know just how long a shot it would be getting tickets to the swearing-in of the country's first black chief executive. Congressional offices have been swamped with requests for the 240,000 free tickets to the swearing-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
The boys, 13-year-old Marcus Branch and his 8-year-old brother Myles, from Bartlett, Tenn., received the tickets as a gift from their grandmother, Shirley Mason.
"I wanted them to get an invitation, to have the presidential inauguration invitation that they could put in their memory books," Mason said. "I was hoping, but you never know."
Long before the first ballots were cast, Mason sent a letter to U.S. Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.), asking for tickets to the 56th Presidential Inauguration. Mason included her name, and the names of her daughter and son-in-law, Sonji and Anthony Branch, and their children, Marcus and Myles.
"We knew this was going to be a historic election, one way or the other," Mason said of her early bid for tickets.
Mason didn't know just how long a shot it would be getting tickets to the swearing-in of the country's first black chief executive. Congressional offices have been swamped with requests for the 240,000 free tickets to the swearing-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
