The world would have been a far better place if Martin were still with us.

[Stinky The Clown]

I spent the day doing some essentially manual labor that is solitary. I chose to have no radio and there was no chance for teevee. I spent the day thinking about stuff.

I reflected on the loss of Martin.

And Robert

And John.

Oh so many, many years ago. Nearly half a century now. I was a young man then. I recall the hurt and the loss. Martin. Who gave those stirring speeches. Who was, indeed, leading a people to a promised land. And in leading a people, was leading us all. What might have been had he lived and continued to lead?

Others have come and gone. Wearing his mantle then finding themselves an ill fit for it. Too small to fit the shoulders of the great man's coat.

I miss Martin. I miss the two brothers, too.

[MichiganVote]

1. Yes.

[Fireweed247]

2. God knows you are right!

It is such a travesty these amazing leaders were taken from US. They have never been replaced and it has all been downhill since then.

It is so unbelievable that "wackos" are always killing the great Democrats, never the other way around.(not that there have been any great Republicans)

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Actually, Lincoln was a Republican.

But that was when they were a very different party.

[chixydix]

4. Invoking their names can be emotional and even cathartic but in the big picture

is pretty much an exercise in futility. They're all dead and whatever their putative influence was, doesn't mean shit now.
In a thousand years, whatever pathetic remains there are of homo sapiens won't know much less care what any of those guys (or any of us now) did, any more than what our own obscure pre-stone-aged ancestors did in this instant of history.

And in a million years, all traces of our civilization (as we call it) will be erased...and on down the line when the sun goes very very larg and eats the first 4 planets...

It's amazing how we think we're important. :-)