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His army was positioned like January 19, Martin Luther King Day reach affects us to this day. no one before them to strike for liberty The “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech and country. and not the “I Have a Dream Speech” is my There was no fanfare. The men involved favorite. King would deliver it the night were a sorry lot. Some with shoes. Some What country? Where was it? These fellows before his assassination. without. Hungry. Sick. Exhausted. Cold. had been running for their lives daily and Very cold. John Hancock described them all knew it. This wasn’t Washington rallying It must have seemed like a time when as “broken by fatigue and ill-fortune.” the troops. He was salvaging the troops. everything was coming apart, but really, Oh, to have heard it. If Washington was it was coming together. King had been These were the fellows who crossed the not persuasive enough, the cause was over. to Memphis a week earlier to support Delaware days before with Washington. The enterprise lost, right there in the snow a sanitation workers’ strike. Trash men. Their service was up at the stroke of without one incoming shot. Really hard work. Much more so than it midnight. Rightfully so. Weak and with is today. little left, but alive, the Delaware crossing Somehow, Washington, the one man who secured a high note as their commitment saw it, conveyed his vision. Then, he scaled The trash trucks were poorly maintained. came to a close. Now, hungry and camped back his request. Not six months. Would Two workers were crushed inside one. in the cold, they knew they had truly “seen they fight with him for seven more days? The earlier trip to Memphis had not gone it through.” Seven days. well. There was violence. King couldn’t control things. Washington called them together just The men spoke among themselves. Slowly, hours before discharge. They had followed a few stepped forward. Then more. Nearly King was fighting not to lose. As long as this man on what had been a steady path all. Could they have imagined what the cause was nonviolent, there could be no of retreat. They had worn out their boots Washington saw at that moment, that they justification for extinguishing it. Violence from the heel forward behind a general could win this thing? If they could, there is and lawlessness would unleash a crushing who fought not to lose and not to win. no way that they would have also imagined blow to the cause. Keep the cause alive, and what Washington expected to do should a lucky blow could come. Like a puncher’s chance in the later rounds, they be victorious: return to his farm. Washington was fighting, in his words, for King returned to Memphis to try again to a “lucky blow that would rouse the people.” The Delaware crossing produced an ember. lead peaceful support, but there was concern He landed such a blow when he crossed the It was the voluntary decision to keep on that the commitment to non-violence was Delaware, but Washington knew the sting by this sorry group that blew warmth on slipping away, empowering the opposition. inflicted was slipping away as midnight the opportunity allowing Washington to neared. strike before the high point was snuffed. King was not well. Exhausted. The weather, Right there. All things were possible going a storm watch in place, didn’t help. He What his men knew is that, for many, the forward. decided to stay behind in his hotel room cold, hunger and illness of the campaign while his assistant, Ralph Abernathy, went would be passed to others. Washington proceeded to do what he to the hall to speak. always did: They broke camp, leaving just Washington spoke to the men gathered a few behind to keep fires going and make A capacity gathering had defied the weather before him and asked that they give him a bit of noise, to mislead the enemy who for the evening rally. The fervor in the hall just another six months. He promised a was certain to come. He went on the attack. was high. Abernathy returned to the hotel, sizable payment he did not have. Then, Strike, strike, strike. And then retreat. woke King, and explained that he had to he waited for the men to step forward in Immediately, he stunned the enemy again, appear. King dragged himself out of bed and acceptance. No one moved. Why would sending a message that this thing was not went to the hall. The speech he delivered they? There comes a time when one must over. Just as important, the citizenry started was unprepared. It’s just beautiful. There is put his wellbeing first. to come around. As we all know, in time, Continued on page 5 4 CITATIONS • JANUARY 2015 2015 VCBA BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS President William M. Grewe President-Elect Charmaine Buehner Secretary-Treasurer Erik B. Feingold Past President Laura V. Bartels Executive Director, CEO Steve Henderson, CAE Linda K. Ash Joshua S. Hopstone Katherine Hause Becker Thomas J. Hutchinson Kathryn E. Clunen Amy Dilbeck Kiesewetter Rod L. Kodman Kata Kim Rachel Coleman Mark Kirwin Margaret Coyle Alfonso Martinez Rennee R. Dehesa Susan L. McCarthy Jill L. Friedman Michael A. Strauss Douglas K. Goldwater Andy Viets CITATIONS EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor Wendy C. Lascher Publisher, CEO Steve Henderson Graphics/Production J.P. McWaters Assistant Editor BONGIOVI MEDIATION Heather Hackney Mediating Solutions since 1998 Karen B. Darnall Rachel Coleman Mediator • Arbitrator • Discovery Referee Michael L. McQueen Michael R. Sment Panda L. 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This is one man at a moment in mater, UCLA, as an example of what a his-head jam, now the emblem for Jordan time leading the struggle for a cause of the liberal arts education can do for you. footwear. Nope. Kobe said this: ages against insurmountable odds. There was no one else with his voice, humility or In 1966, having lost a gig on Sunset Aggression. It’s not one game or manner of leadership, and there would not Boulevard as well as a recording opportunity, one play, in particular; it’s just his be again.