King's birthday remembered in New Haven (speak against war; memorial wall)

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King's birthday remembered in New Haven

Religious leaders honoring the memory of Doctor Martin Luther King Junior in New Haven today are also speaking out against the war in Iraq and Americans who've died there.

The name of every US soldier killed in Iraq is read, allowed as a tribute to their sacrifice.

It's part of a Martin Luther King tribute on the New Haven green where religious leaders gathered not only to celebrate Dr. King's life but to protest the war.

Rev. Kathleen McTigue, Unitarian Society of New Haven, says, "We believe the war in Iraq is unjust and illegal and if Martin Luther King were alive today he would condemn it and call for an end to it like he did the Vietnam war."

And like the Vietnam War, those killed in Iraq are being remembered on a memorial wall with more than 1,500 names and faces.

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http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=2814893&nav=3YeXVF9x

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1. King really shone when he finally stood against the VN war. eom