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sinkingfeeling

(51,444 posts) Thu Apr 4, 2013, 09:42 AM Apr 2013

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April 4, 1968

45 years ago Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/the-murder-of-martin-luther-king-jr/

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April 4, 1968 (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Apr 2013 OP

. pinboy3niner Apr 2013 #1

I would have been six hfojvt Apr 2013 #2

I remember it well. I was in the US Army, stationed at Fort Meade, Maryland Glorfindel Apr 2013 #3

pinboy3niner

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Thu Apr 4, 2013, 09:50 AM

Apr 2013

hfojvt

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2. I would have been six

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Thu Apr 4, 2013, 09:53 AM

Apr 2013

and don't remember that in real time. I do remember this, though, or waiting at the airport to see him http://tbdisdh.blogspot.com/2010/05/may-11-1968-sen-robert-kennedy-and-vice.html

Glorfindel

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3. I remember it well. I was in the US Army, stationed at Fort Meade, Maryland

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Thu Apr 4, 2013, 10:02 AM

Apr 2013

What a terrible time that was.

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