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bluescribbler

(2,547 posts) Fri Apr 4, 2025, 12:35 PM Apr 2025

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 2025 OP

Never forget. defacto7 Apr 2025 #1

Never and pass it on before it is erased from history. LoisB Apr 2025 #2

... SheltieLover Apr 2025 #3

Never forget. .but they would sure like us to! niyad Apr 2025 #4

Kick Thank you for posting. bronxiteforever Apr 2025 #5

I was in 6th grade, and found out the next morning when I came down to breakfast. Martin Eden Apr 2025 #6

Rest in Peace, great heart. Thank you for your gifts to us all. Hekate Apr 2025 #7

There are now so many dates of tragedies that have occurred in my lifetime TNNurse Apr 2025 #8

... littlemissmartypants Apr 2025 #9

Never ever forget democrank Apr 2025 #10

Exactly one year to the day after... keep_left Apr 2025 #11

defacto7

(14,162 posts)

1. Never forget.

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 12:47 PM

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LoisB

(13,488 posts)

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

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 12:50 PM

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SheltieLover

(81,725 posts)

3. ...

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:44 PM

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niyad

(134,035 posts)

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

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:27 PM

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bronxiteforever

(11,212 posts)

5. Kick Thank you for posting.

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:27 PM

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Martin Eden

(15,879 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 2025

My aunt was watching the news on television, weeping.

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

Hekate

(100,133 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

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TNNurse

(7,550 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 2025

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

(34,380 posts)

9. ...

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:10 PM

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democrank

(12,680 posts)

10. Never ever forget

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:22 PM

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keep_left

(3,225 posts)

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

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Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:51 PM

Apr 2025

...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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