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TRIBUTE TO DR. KING CELEBRATES HIS DREAM

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The official celebration Monday honoring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. echoed with commitments to peace, freedom, brotherhood — and to our young people.
Gov. Charles W. Turnbull, keynote speaker, said government officials must join with churches and community groups to establish a no-nonsense tough-love program to save young people, the Daily News reported.
"We must all be resolved to do our part to work together as one people, for as one people we shall rise or as one people we shall sink," he said.
Turnbull also called for meaningful celebrations of local and federal government holidays.
"If we feel our holidays shouldn't be celebrated, then we should tell each other and scrap it and work," he said. "If we go to the beach and elsewhere and don't know the meaning of the holiday, it should be scrapped."
The ceremony began with an interfaith ecumenical service conducted by the Interfaith Coalition of St. Thomas-St. John at Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral and continued with a parade down Main Street to Emancipation Garden.
JROTC students from Charlotte Amalie and Ivanna Eudora Kean high schools led the parade, according to the Daily News.
The CAHS marching band played during the parade and the music continued at Emancipation Garden with tributes from local
choirs from CAHS, Eudora Kean High and Kirwan Terrace Elementary School.
Other participants in the tribute included "God's Chosen Vessels," a pantomime group from the Faith Christian Fellowship Church and Kareem Turnbull, a seventh-grader at Zion Assembly School.
Turnbull, who marched in the parade down Main Street, then presented remarks to the crowd of about 300 people, said King's message was that "each of us must be prepared to do our best in our true greatness."
The holiday, he added, was a time to remember the work and sacrifice of King and those who marched and worked with him.
One young person attending the tribute, 14-year-old Calvern Williams, said if King hadn't died, the United States might have had a black president.
"If we continue living up to what he tried to accomplish, we could be more productive," Williams said.

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