#Nine Passengers

[H2O Man]

22. Thanks!

I had read your comment, and was about to respond when a close friend stopped in. He also grew up in those same times.

When the issue of King and Ali comes up, I think about how the Champ got great advice at the time of the draft bit from Martin. And how the FBI recorded their telephone conversations. And how Bill Russell and other top black athletes met with Ali in June of 1967, and endorsed his decision to refuse to be drafted.

So those things are all part of my life. Yet, I understand that when I say to a young adult something like, "Well, you really need to understand Watergate .....," they tend to react how I would have if an old man had told me, "Listen, you need to understand what happened in 1924."