At first I was going to call it the night. But when Daz text if I was at the White House, well, there will never be a night like this. So I took a stroll to Lafayette Park where there were hundreds of celebrants chanting “USA! USA! USA!” and sang the national anthem and “God Bless America,” and “America the Beautiful,” and chanted “Four More Years,” and “Obama Got Osama,” and a bunch of other stuff I’m not going to print.
Out of the orderly chaos one thing that crossed my mind was how many people had huge American flags readily available for the celebration. And who had time to put on face paint? And one person even dressed up in his Santa Claus outfit!
It was a crazy scene seeing so many people of every walk of life there. Kind of reminded me of the celebrations from the night Barack Obama won the election. To think Obama was at the White House tonight, probably looking out the window feeling a heavy burden lifted off his shoulders.
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Obama Got Osama
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There was no way for me to snap a picture capturing the full scale of how many people were there. Not to mention the lack of light made taking clear pictures a bit challenging.[img src=http://davidgaines.com/wp-content/flagallery/obama-got-osama/thumbs/thumbs_2625.jpg]
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This dude was probably photographed more times tonight than all of his life combined. And there were people interviewing him for who knows what.[img src=http://davidgaines.com/wp-content/flagallery/obama-got-osama/thumbs/thumbs_2664.jpg]
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It's amazing how many people just had flags ready to go for the celebration![img src=http://davidgaines.com/wp-content/flagallery/obama-got-osama/thumbs/thumbs_2603.jpg]
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There were people all night climbing this lamppost but this guy took the cake when he started waving the American flag.[img src=http://davidgaines.com/wp-content/flagallery/obama-got-osama/thumbs/thumbs_2583.jpg]
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It kind of felt like a campaign moment.[img src=http://davidgaines.com/wp-content/flagallery/obama-got-osama/thumbs/thumbs_2647.jpg]
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David Gaines at the celebration in front of the White House after the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden.



