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bluescribbler

(2,317 posts) Fri Apr 4, 2025, 12:35 PM Apr 4

Lest we forget: April 4, 1968

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

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Lest we forget: April 4, 1968 (Original Post) bluescribbler Apr 4 OP

Never forget. defacto7 Apr 4 #1

Never and pass it on before it is erased from history. LoisB Apr 4 #2

... SheltieLover Apr 4 #3

Never forget. .but they would sure like us to! niyad Apr 4 #4

Kick Thank you for posting. bronxiteforever Apr 4 #5

I was in 6th grade, and found out the next morning when I came down to breakfast. Martin Eden Apr 4 #6

Rest in Peace, great heart. Thank you for your gifts to us all. Hekate Apr 4 #7

There are now so many dates of tragedies that have occurred in my lifetime TNNurse Apr 4 #8

... littlemissmartypants Apr 4 #9

Never ever forget democrank Apr 4 #10

Exactly one year to the day after... keep_left Apr 4 #11

defacto7

(14,023 posts)

1. Never forget.

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 12:47 PM

Apr 4

LoisB

(10,042 posts)

2. Never and pass it on before it is erased from history.

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 12:50 PM

Apr 4

SheltieLover

(66,127 posts)

3. ...

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:44 PM

Apr 4

niyad

(123,140 posts)

4. Never forget. .but they would sure like us to!

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:27 PM

Apr 4

bronxiteforever

(10,305 posts)

5. Kick Thank you for posting.

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:27 PM

Apr 4

Martin Eden

(14,100 posts)

6. I was in 6th grade, and found out the next morning when I came down to breakfast.

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:31 PM

Apr 4

My aunt was watching the news on television, weeping.

When I went to school that day, my "peers" were celebrating.

Hekate

(97,110 posts)

7. Rest in Peace, great heart. Thank you for your gifts to us all.

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:51 PM

Apr 4

TNNurse

(7,302 posts)

8. There are now so many dates of tragedies that have occurred in my lifetime

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:57 PM

Apr 4

It is important to acknowledge each one.

Some of those are of course, private family deaths, but the public ones are just as significant.

littlemissmartypants

(27,138 posts)

9. ...

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:10 PM

Apr 4

democrank

(11,378 posts)

10. Never ever forget

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:22 PM

Apr 4

keep_left

(2,828 posts)

11. Exactly one year to the day after...

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:51 PM

Apr 4

...King's infamous and prophetic Beyond Vietnam speech. ("Infamous" because many newspapers attacked King, and even some of his supporters broke ranks. But King's diagnosis was correct: the country needed strong medicine when it came to its ruptures over race and class).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Vietnam:_A_Time_to_Break_Silence

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