>>>>Just drove to the bank....not realizing today is MLK day.
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>>>Just heard the whole "I Have a Dream" speech on NPR. Wow! I'd heard pieces of over the years, but never the whole speech. Worth listening. I imagine it'll turn on the "Talk of the Nation" page tomorrow.
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>>So many have tried to copy his cadence of preachers. (His father was a preacher in Atlanta, as you know). He found his voice as a young man and lived the rest of his life in the public eye, as Taylor Branch put it in his soaring biography. I have been to the mountaintop. I fear nothing now. He said those words the night before he died. In a perfect world he would be in Washington tomorrow.
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>The History Channel has been airing the MLK documentary all day (hosted by Tom Brokaw). It's really long but really amazing. Even after studying his life in school, I learned quite a bit.

I will see if I can find it on replay.

My AA sponsor is from Wisconsin and tells me the kids where he grew up -- up north, where you are from if I am not mistaken -- get school off for the first day of hunting season but not for Martin Luther King's birthday.