The ceremony was held in the newly-reopened Capital building.
Kind of a cool setting, isn't it?
Kelli's dad, who is a retired USAF major, conducted the ceremony...
...and administered the oath. He did a better job than Chief Justice Roberts.
Remember this photo, you'll see it again from a different angle below.
There was a newspaper reporter there doing a story on the restoration of the George Washington statue, so she came over and interviewed Matt and Kellie. Matt got his picture in the paper as a result (see below).
Here's the newspaper article. Notice the same photo as above, but from a different angle. We snapped our pictures just a fraction of a second apart.
Matt also got a couple of medals awarded. Kellie got to pin them on him.
Actually these are given to anyone in the armed services during a war (for the one) and during the war on terror (for the other), but it's still cool.
A family picture with the newest officer in the U.S. Navy.
Finally, as an added bonus, the famous Idaho statue of George Washington holding a light saber.
2 comments:
what happened to the rest of his sabre?
good pics, wavid. how long have they been renovating the capitol? it's been several years, hasn't it?
They're actually restoring the statue right now -- that's what the reporter was there to do a story on. There was a lady there touching up the gold leaf. Maybe they'll give GW back his blade in the process. Or maybe they like the Jedi look. :)
The restoration took two and a half years.
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