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Today, of course, is Martin Luther King Day. This year's holiday, in KSL's view, is one of historic proportions.
For the first time here in Utah, this significant holiday will stand alone, without the distracting conflict of the state legislature getting underway. Because of last November's timely passage of Constitutional Amendment C, lawmakers will now convene their annual session on the fourth Monday in January rather than the third.
Let it be a day both of service and celebration.
Foremost, though, this day is historic for its proximity to what will happen tomorrow, when a much different type of gathering will take place in Washington, D.C. than the one that occurred there in August of 1963.
It was then and there, in the midst of the civil rights movement when the nation still languished with the manacles of segregation, that Dr. King so eloquently expressed his dream about an America where people would no longer be judged by the color of their skin.
Tomorrow, not far from where that famous speech was delivered, an African-American will take the oath of office to become President of the United States.
As Martin Luther King so stirringly proclaimed that day, "let freedom ring." Dreams do indeed come true.
