Diversity - Coast Guard Auxiliary Celebrates Diversity http://blogs-it.cgaux.org/index.php/diversity/?tempskin=_atom b2evolution 2025-01-23T09:42:27Z Coast Guard Auxiliary Celebrates Diversity Mary Gibbons http://blogs-it.cgaux.org/index.php/diversity/2012/01/17/coast-guard-auxiliary-celebrates-diversity 2012-01-17T08:20:18Z 2012-01-17T08:27:39Z On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous 17 minute "I Have a Dream" speech in front of 250,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold those words to be self-evident that all men are created equal...”

That was almost 48 years ago and had he not fallen to an assassin’s bullet on April 4, 1968 at the age of 39, he might have probably lived to see – at age 79 – some of this dream come true, when Barrack Obama was elected President of the United States. To read the rest of the article go to Coast Guard Auxiliary Live, Official Blog of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary at http://live.cgaux.org/?p=775.

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