Monday, November 24, 2014
PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
My friend, college classmate and fellow employee, Mickey Schwerner will be awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom, posthumously today by President Obama. How fitting that our first Black president will be making the award to three young men who lost their lives working to get voting rights for Blacks in Mississippi fifty years ago. Mickey was a big Ray Charles fan, so I'll be listening to "What'd I Say" and other Ray Charles goodies all day in fond memory of Mickey and his fellow civil rights workers.
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I knew Mickey as well, Furts, though certainly not like you.What a wonderful honor, and as you point out, how fitting it should come from an African-American president. God bless Schwerner, Goodman and Cheney. In Hebrew we say Alaiv Hashalom, Rest in Peace. Indeed!
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