Inauguration 'Do-Over' for Locked Out Ticketholders

Purple ticketholders are vindicated....somewhat.

Thousands of people who had tickets to the purple and blue sections of the National Mall for last Tuesday's swearing in of Barack Obama as president never made it. There was a mob scene, and hoards of them were herded into the 3rd Street Tunnel, which has since been dubbed "the Purple Tunnel of Doom."

Gabe Cohen, an Obama campaign worker from Denver, organized a swearing in do-over. Not for President Obama, but for any of those locked out of the process on Tuesday.

The message went out on Facebook, and the Survivors of the Purple Tunnel of Doom were invited to bring their iPods and laptops to the front of the Capitol.

They downloaded President Obama taking the oath of office and his speech, and watched in at 12 o'clock noon. They donned their earphones, waved their tickets in the air, took the obligatory class picture and everybody went home.

The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies has apologized for keeping thousands of ticket-holders outside security gates. The committee says it is investigating exactly what went wrong.

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