Can’t say enough about a genuine and genuinely inspiring man.
Last night, right around midnight, as I had just finished writing and scheduling my Saturday Surprise post and was in the process of responding to comments, a breaking news flash crossed my screen that took my breath, caused me to utter aloud, “NO!”, and broke my heart. Congressman John Lewis had died.
There are few people alive today who deserve the title ‘hero’ in every sense of the word. John Lewis was one such person.
When President Obama awarded John Lewis the Medal of Freedom in 2011, he said …
“Generations from now, when parents teach their children what is meant by courage, the story of John Lewis will come to mind — an American who knew that change could not wait for some other person or some other time; whose life is a lesson in the fierce urgency of now.”
John Robert Lewis was born in Troy, Alabama, on…
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