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babsbunny

(8,441 posts) Wed Apr 4, 2012, 05:41 PM Apr 2012

Today marks a somber day in our nation's history.

Today marks a somber day in our nation's history.

On April 4, 1968 the Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior was assassinated.

He was gunned down on the balcony of a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King's Last Speech: "I Have Been To The Mountaintop"

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Today marks a somber day in our nation's history. (Original Post) babsbunny Apr 2012 OP

Thank you for this thread. GopperStopper2680 Apr 2012 #1

(((( MLK, Jr. )))) BlueIris Apr 2012 #2

GopperStopper2680

(397 posts)

1. Thank you for this thread.

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Wed Apr 4, 2012, 05:50 PM

Apr 2012

Long live the memory and legacy of Martin Luther King Junior. If our future is to survive with any trace of liberty then we need our heirs to remember the heroes of their past.

BlueIris

(29,135 posts)

2. (((( MLK, Jr. ))))

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Wed Apr 4, 2012, 05:55 PM

Apr 2012

Sometimes I want to cry that I wasn't born in the era he lived. I feel there will never be another like him, and our society is all the poorer for it.

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