I would go into detail, but it's too hard to explain what it is like to visit the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on April 4, 1968. 

I can remember that day like it was yesterday, sitting in my parents' home, watching the news story unfold on the screen in front of me.

In the photograph, you are looking at the Lorraine Motel's front side.  To the right of the wreath and about two feet back is where Dr. King was struck down by James Earl Ray, a two-bit criminal.  If you were there when it happened, the shot would have come over your left shoulder at about "8 o'clock" if you think of the wreath as being at "12 o'clock".

The two panes of glass where the curtains are open on the second floor are hallways inside the building, now the National Civil Rights Museum.  If you were facing out from inside those panes of glass, Dr. King's room would be to your right and Dr. Ralph Abernathy's room to your right.  The rooms, with clear side walls so you can view them, are arranged and furnished as they were that fateful.

If you visit Memphis, take a few hours and visit this site, the Lorraine Motel and the National Civil Rights Museum.  It will expand your mind.

For more information, please visit the National Civil Rights Museum on the Web.

And just to close the loop and show how Bluejeans is trying to teach tolerance in youths...

...I took my two nephews, Keith and Matthew, to see Dr. King's grave in Atlanta at the Center for Non-violence. 

I hope all my adult visitors are making similar attempts in their youngsters.  If we are teaching them tolerance, the dream will never die.