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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Obama urges national struggle as inauguration looms AFP - Monday, January 19 WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Barack Obama called Sunday for a new spirit of sacrifice to overcome war and economic crisis, as a constellation of stars kicked off a three-day inauguration party for America's first black president. Standing in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, dedicated to the slain president who brought the United States intact through the Civil War and abolished slavery, Obama gave a somber assessment of the perils ahead. "In the course of our history, only a handful of generations have been asked to confront challenges as serious as the ones we face right now. Our nation is at war. Our economy is in crisis," he said. "I won't pretend that meeting any one of these challenges will be easy. It will take more than a month or a year, and it will likely take many," Obama said. "But never forget that the true character of our nation is revealed not during times of comfort and ease, but by the right we do when the moment is hard. "I ask you to help reveal that character once more, and together, we can carry forward as one nation, and one people, the legacy of our forefathers that we celebrate today." U2, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder -- whose songs were totemic anthems of Obama's barnstorming rise to power -- headlined a concert for a sea of people standing in arctic cold in front of Abraham Lincoln's memorial. The hundreds of thousands attending were the advance guard of an inaugural crowd expected to number millions, as an unprecedented security operation began with police and army reservists taking up position across the US capital. Hollywood royalty including Tom Hanks, Jamie Foxx and Denzel Washington recited historical passages interspersed with the all-star musical lineup, to mark the formal countdown to Tuesday's momentous inauguration on Capitol Hill. In advance of the afternoon party, Obama struck a more somber note as he joined vice president-elect Joseph Biden in laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery. Dressed in black winter coats to guard against the freezing temperatures, Obama and Biden held their hands over their hearts as "Taps," the US military's haunting lament to the fallen, was played by a lone bugler. Obama and his wife Michelle then climbed into the incoming president's new armored Cadillac with a blue license plate reading "44" -- his numerical position as the newest commander-in-chief. The incoming First Family headed to a raucous reception at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Washington's oldest African-American church, and joined in a swaying, emotive recitation of hymns and Biblical passages. Along a railroad from Philadelphia to Washington, a route once traced by his hero Lincoln, Obama Saturday urged Americans to adopt a new "Declaration of Independence" from bigotry, small thinking and ideology. Aides said those themes will figure large in Obama's inaugural address after he is sworn in around noon Tuesday. Rahm Emanuel, the next White House chief of staff, told NBC the speech would declare an end to "the culture of anything goes" and demand a new era of responsibility from government, corporate boardrooms and the American people. Incoming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs vied to temper sky-high expectations both worldwide and at home, as the United States grapples with its longest recession since World War II. "We did not get into the situation overnight. The problems and the challenges that our country face didn't happen all last week. It's going to take us some time," Gibbs said on "Fox News Sunday." But Gibbs and other senior aides said Obama would act rapidly to enact his economic revival plans via a mammoth stimulus package worth 825 billion dollars. And on his first full day in office Wednesday, the aides said, Obama will also convene his top military brass to map a way out of Iraq and recommit US troops against a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan. "He will be meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to begin an orderly and responsible withdrawal from Iraq," senior adviser David Axelrod told CNN. President George W. Bush's successor will also "engage early and aggressively with diplomacy all over the world," and hopes a newly declared ceasefire between Israel and Gaza militants will endure, Axelrod said. After the tumultuous Bush years, Obama comes to office with the highest poll ratings since Ronald Reagan in 1981. The New York Times and CBS News said 79 percent of respondents to its poll were optimistic about the next four years. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World NTSB: Airliner's engines lost power at same timeAP - 35 minutes ago Israeli officials: Gaza troops out by inaugurationAP - 40 minutes ago Technology to stop phone use in cars isn't perfectAP - 51 minutes ago Hamas and Israel hold fireReuters - 55 minutes ago Leftist Salvadoran ex-rebels claim 'leading force' statusAFP - 1 hour 8 minutes ago Enlarge Photo US president-elect Barack Obama (L) and vice president-elect Joe Biden lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. 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