FREE AT LAST! - Day after MLK Jr. died !

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Guest Commentary at http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl
Excerpt reprinted with permission:

FREE AT LAST- Day after Martin Luther King, Jr. died
By Jonathan Mark
Publisher of FlybyNews.com

April 5th 1968 was a strange day. I felt in a fog going along Ocean Parkway to Church Avenue on foot to take the bus to school. The faint memories of trolleys replaced by puffs of diesel smoke; I guess we all have to learn to hold our breath sometimes. My mind rambled at the bus stop, on the bus with images of blurred television news. The assassination of Martin Luther King reminded me of the Kennedy assassination. What was going to happen now to the debate between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., with a Vietnam War escalating to make any kid wonder about our future.

School seemed almost too normal that morning. But before long, fire alarms rang out, and we were led out of school. Word spread faster than fire, a smoke bomb was released in the ventilation system. We wondered if school would resume that day, but something unusual occurred. On the same side as the school remained only Black students, all other races, it seemed to me crossed the street. It was hard to resist; I reluctantly crossed, wanting to somehow convey my feelings of loss with my friends and football team-mates.

Across the street I found that I did not belong either.....

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1. I was lost that day. I cried so much. It was also my birthday.

It has become bittersweet but somehow special that I celebrate my birthday and one of my heroes Dr. Martin Luther King on the same day. I am crying right now. :dem: