Monday is a holiday celebrating the life, work, and mission of Martin Luther King Jr.  I worry sometimes that this celebration is considered a time only for African Americans.  And yet Reverend King is a most American of Heroes who simply fought for justice, equality, and the rights of those who had few rights, very much the same thing that was fought for in the American Revolution and America has fought for around the world.  Within the culture he stood for those who could not stand for themselves and died for that stance.  America would not be what it is without George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, or Martin Luther King.  When America moved toward the rights of the individual in 1776  a race of people was left behind, one of the travesties in American history set in a history of so many other great and wonderful ideas and ideals.  Reverend King stood not only for those people who were in bondage, but for those who did not realize that they too were outside the sphere of what American stands for.  When we find ourselves realizing that Martin Luther King Jr is a hero for all Americans, then the dream of this Baptist Preacher will have been realized.  I hope you find time ,whatever your own personal story, to celebrate this most American of Holidays.