Only two American flags flying on my street today

[yorkiemommie1]

My SoCal street has 30 homes on it and the majority of them fly their flags for every federal holiday....except one...MLK Day.

Today only two people put out their flags. :(

[riverdale]

1. Hello from work

My wife and I both have to work today. Her situation is ridiculous because she works at a public school. That school district does not recognize the Dr. King holiday. All the others around here do.

[rodeodance]

5. individual states can also choose to recognize it.

[yorkiemommie1]

11. Our schools are closed

My Repug husband says he doesn't think MLK 'did that much' for the country and I suspect that is the feeling in my neighborhood, which gets pretty about 'who' moves onto the street.

[EFerrari]

2. Are the banks closed today? Btw, Amy Goodman had a lovely tribute

to Dr. King on her show today. It re-airs twice on LinkTv. :hi:

[Warpy]

3. People here put their flags out for every holiday, including MLK Day

until about a year ago. Now there are only a couple of diehards who fly the flag every day.

Nobody is feeling particularly patriotic these days. With the corporations running the government, the herd of we the people actively being culled by for profit insurance companies, and our civil liberties gone down the drain, what's to love?

This is what the GOP has done. They must be so proud.

[Fresh_Start]

6. we're not flying the flag anymore

protest against the stupidity that perverts patriotism to promote criminal actions by our government

[Postman]

10. I'm not conceding my flag to the rightwing of this country.

I'm a liberal and I fly my flag everyday. I'm just as much an American, even more so, than anybody on the rightwing.

This is my country and I'll be damned if some f**king fascist is going to lay claim to the flag that represents liberal ideals.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. You know they are.

This what the GOP has done. They must be so proud.

[yorkiemommie1]

12. This pre-dates the Bush administration

has been going on for much longer.

[Sanctified]

4. Do they fly them for Christmas, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving and New Years?

I personally would never have thought to fly a flag on Martin Luther King Day, I do fly one on Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veterans Day though.

[yorkiemommie1]

8. It's a federal holiday

so I fly it on every federal holiday. Yes, some of them fly theirs on Columbus Day, and Dec. 7th, Flag Day...

They are happy to have the day off, though!

[Sanctified]

9. Do you fly it on Christmas?

[Zywiec]

14. You were reading my mind.

Why do the majority of her street put flags out on Christmas, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving and New Years?

Not sure I understand the relationship.

:shrug:

[Breeze54]

13. I never see flags out on display for President's birthdays or the like.

I do see them for the 4th of July, Memorial Day and Patriots Day but not for a birthday.

Everything here is closed today except the bars and liquor stores.

There are festivities planned here today to celebrate MLK's birthday.

There was a huge turnout for a breakfast today here, in his honor.

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Boston to build Martin Luther King statue

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Posted: Tuesday, 15 January 2008 4:24PM

mjw

BOSTON (WBZ Newsroom) --

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, will be honored officially in Boston
with a statue to be built following a fund-raising campaign, Mayor Thomas Menino announced Tuesday during
the city's annual ceremony commemorating the civil rights leader's birthday.

The city's annual celebration of Martin Luther King's life was held at the Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury.

King and his wife belonged to the congregation in the 1950s when they lived in Boston while he attended
Boston University Divinity School.

Their son, Martin Luther King III, told the gathering that he is happy his parents will be honored in this way in
a city that once was their home.

A committee will be formed to seek donations and select a location for the statue, Menino said.

Although under the federal Monday-holiday law King's birthday will be marked nationwide on Monday,
Boston traditionally holds its commemoration on his actual birth date, Jan. 15.

King, assassinated in 1968, would have turned 79 years old on Tuesday.


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Hundreds turn out for 38th annual M.L.K. breakfast

http://wbz.com/Hundreds-turn-out-for-38th-annual-M-L-K--breakfast/1514238

Posted: Monday, 21 January 2008 10:48AM



It was quite the turnout this morning in South Boston, where hundreds of people
turned out for the 38th annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast.

Gov. Deval Patrick, the nation's only African-American governor was one of the
featured speakers. He spoke about Dr. King's legacy of service.

Other speakers included Boston Mayor Tom Menino, Attorney General Martha Coakley
and State Sen. Diane Wilkerson.

The keynote speaker was Johnny Ford, Mayor of Tuskeegee, Alabama.