NeMeredith Aby-Keirstead, April 5, 2019
Musi waEpril 4, 1967, Dr. King akapa hurukuro yake "Beyond Vietnam" hurukuro inopesana nehondo paRwiziside Church muNew York City. Anoshungurudzwa akaurayiwa kunyangwe gore rimwe chete gare gare, pabhandi reLorraine Motel kuMemphis, Tennessee.
Musi waEpril 4, 1949, Mutemo weNorth Atlantic wakasayirwa kutanga kwekubatana kwehondo kunonzi NATO.
Purogiramu yakatanga pa capitol nhanho nenziyo naHanzvadzi Brigid McDonald, mazwi okutanga aSue Ann Martinson naMel Reeves, bhero rinonyengetera neVeterans for Peace, uye runyoro kuna Reverend King neBhishopi Richard D. Howell Jr. weShilo Temple.
Martinson, nhengo yevakadzi pamusoro pevarwi vehondo, akazarura chiitiko ichi: "Martin Luther King ainzi Vietnam chiratidzo chekurwara kwakadzama kwemweya weAmerica. Nhasi tine chimwe chiratidzo, Venezuela. Akafanotaura kuti taizove tichifamba uye tichipinda magungano pasina mugumo kunze kwekunge kuchinja kukuru muhupenyu hweAmerica uye mutemo wakaitika; ikozvino isu tine hondo dzisingagumi uye munyaya yeVenezuela yaedza kuenderera mberi nekutyisidzira kwehondo. "Akawedzera kuti," Tiri kutarisana nezviviri zvemazuva ano, rimwe chete runyararo rwakapoteredza mutauro we "Beyond Vietnam" uye hutsinye hwaro hwehondo, pro -mharidzo yepurogiramu yakarongwa pamusoro peDkt. King sezvaanoita paMartin Luther King Day. Izvo ndeye kunyarara kwakapoteredza hupamhi uye huwandu hwenyika dzeUS / NATO munyika yose. "
Mukati mu capitol rotunda vanhu vazhinji vakanzwa hurukuro mbiri: University of Minnesota Purofesa August Nimtz pamutemo wekodzero dzevanhu vaMartin Luther King Jr., uye Major (Ret.) Todd E. Pierce paNATO.
Zvinyorwa muhurongwa hwose zvakaverengwa kubva kune "Ndine Hope" uye "Kunze kweVietnam" inotaurirwa nevadzidzi vekusekondari uye vekusekondari vadzidzi.
Chiitiko chacho chaibhadharwa neMinnesota Peace Action Coalition, Veterans for Peace Chapter 27 uye Vakadzi VaMusikana veMasoja.
