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  2. OPINION: LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: Honor our heroes this Memorial Day

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    Memorial Day was initially known as Decoration Day, a time set aside to honor the nation's Civil War dead by decorating their graves. It was first widely observed on May 30, 1868, by proclamation ...

  3. Sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

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    The famous "I Have a Dream" address was delivered in August 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Less well-remembered are the early sermons of that young, 25-year-old pastor who first began preaching at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954. [3]

  4. What's the meaning of Memorial Day? Why we honor the ... - AOL

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    Memorial Day was officially established as a federal holiday in 1971, but the tradition of honoring fallen soldiers began over a century prior. Originally deemed Decoration Day, the first Memorial ...

  5. Strength to Love - Wikipedia

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    King's writings reflect his deep understanding for the need of agape, a love that is aimed towards ensuring the well-being of others.King believed in a better world, but in order to attain his vision we must first face our fears and then master these fears through courage, love, and faith.

  6. Memorial Day - Wikipedia

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    Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) [1] is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. [2] [3] It is observed on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of summer in the ...

  7. What MLK knew that today’s progressives keep forgetting - AOL

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    Sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black progress. But King did something that eludes many of ...

  8. First They Came - Wikipedia

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    Engraving of the confession in poetic form presented at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts "First They Came" (German: Als sie kamen lit. ' When they came ', or Habe ich geschwiegen lit. ' I did not speak out '), is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller ...

  9. Memorial Day was declared a national holiday by Congress in 1971, to be observed annually on the last Monday in May, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.