About 2 million people were on hand for President Barack Obama’s inauguration, but only saw him on a TV screen. Cory Watkins, of Bedford, saw President Obama from about 20 feet away.
Watkins, a 2006 Liberty High School graduate, is a member of the Hampton University Marching Force, the university’s marching band. The junior, majoring in business management and minoring in Spanish, plays clarinet, the instrument he took up in sixth grade.