Yes we can.

Our new President-Elect, in his ever techno-savvy strategy, has launched www.change.gov. Across the banner was the following quote from Barack Obama:

"Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."

There's a lot of promise and a level of expectation our country has never seen before for our new President. After the last 8 years, it's not surprising that some of us are waiting for the other shoe to drop; it's just too good to be true. We'll have to wait and see, and Barack has already begun the expectation-lowering messages ("I will not be a perfect President" and "there will be challenges," among others). But what I feel is really different is that this time, so many people are willing to work with him, to help and support an administration of change. The mobilzation of the masses is near-revolutionary.

On change.gov, they ask for stories of American Moments, about what this election has meant to us. I share now what I sent to change.gov:

I am one of the Millennials. I voted in my first presidential election when I was 18, in 2000, only 5 months out of high school. After 9/11, when I was just a sophomore in college, I remember feeling so jaded about America, and what it meant to be an American. The flag had been commercialized into lapel pins and car magnets, a symbol of blind patriotism in a fear-gripped guns-a-blaze post 9/11 America. I was not proud to be an American. I was embarrassed.

On the evening on November 4, and into the wee hours of November 5, I felt something I have not felt in almost 10 years. I live on a college campus, and there were students hugging each other, jumping up and down, parading on the street in a spontaneous midnight march around campus - it was a beautiful sight. Inspiring. As I watched our President-Elect speak that evening, the American flag didn't look so trite. To be honest, it didn't look like the joke it has been for the last 8 years, with various leaders parading in front of it like a bad punchline.

For the first time, I saw the American flag as something built on ideals, and that our new President-Elect would remind us of and guide us toward to the foundational principles on which this country was built. I had this warm, fuzzy feeling like when I was a kid, reading about our Founding Fathers in elementary school. I got choked up when Obama spoke about what changes will we have made 50 years from now- what will our children live to see? For the first time for me, the American flag was about possibility. It was about truly coming together as a nation to build this nation together.

For the first time as a Millennial, I am excited to be a part of this generation, and to contribute to my country rather than rebuke it. This is the first time I’ve felt like I’m willing to give our country the chance, because I feel like it’s taken the chance on us to make a change. For the first time in my life, I am actually proud to be an American.