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Forty years ago today I was out on my bicycle collecting money on my newspaper route.  I had just finished for the evening and went to the Pat & Sam’s Market in Marquette Hts. to buy some goodies with some of my loot for the week.  I recall walking into the store and everyone was standing still ... the radio was playing on the intercom radio and it was news of Martin Luther King’s assassination.  I remember being irked because I wanted to get my Suzy Q and soda paid for so I could get home before it got too late ... and nobody was working the register.  They were all just standing there talking about this announcement.  I was too young then to understand what had really happened.  But I remember that day still.  I wish I had been old enough to fully understand the news I had watched up until that day and I wish now that this country had learned a lesson from the man who died.  I’m not sure we have.