ntly assisted the US Government to eventually pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
All this work Dr. King and other civil rights activists did was done so that years later a young graduate of Tuskegee University can be commissioned in the United States Army by his parents, be promoted to captain by his loving wife, promoted to major and subsequently achieve the rank of lieutenant colonel and command a battalion.
While at the same time, he does not have to see his family experience or see the effects of that severe level of discrimination that existed before the civil rights laws were passed.
I am thankful for the work of Dr. King, I am thankful for Dr. Kings dream, and I am thankful for those leaders in our country who continue to support that dream so we can indeed live equally in the greatest country in the world. May God bless our Army and may God bless America, the land I truly love. Thank you all for coming.