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To: LindyBill who wrote (25173)	1/19/2004 5:33:20 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Respond to of 793921

Colin Powell remembers a 40-year old hamburger. washtimes.com <snip> King tribute Secretary of State Colin L. Powell remembers the first time that he, as a young black Army officer, was allowed to buy a hamburger at a drive-in eatery in Phenix City, Ala. He credits Martin Luther King for the law that let him do it. It was July 1964, when the Civil Rights Act was passed, "and I was able to go to the drive-in hamburger stand that had denied me service just a few weeks earlier [and] that now had to serve me," Mr. Powell said in a TV interview that aired yesterday, the Associated Press reports. "I'll never forget that particular day. ... And no one deserves greater credit for bringing about that day and that act than Dr. King," said Mr. Powell, the highest-ranking black official in U.S. government history, in an interview for a syndicated program on King titled "We Have a Dream." Mr. Powell, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also attributed his career to the black soldiers who fought thanklessly for their country: the post-Civil War Buffalo Soldiers on the American frontier; and the Tuskegee Airmen, the Triple Nickel Parachute Battalion and the Montford Point Marines of World War II. "All of them went and served their nation over a period of close to 300 years of military service in this country when they were ... asked to give blood for the nation, but were not going to get the privileges of being citizens of this nation," Mr. Powell said. "But they did it anyway. They did it anyway in the certainty that sooner or later, right would triumph and our Constitution would be made whole."