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Please remember
Justice Marshall
To the Editor:
As we enter the month of February and another Black History month, it is only right and fitting to remember a man of true greatness and perhaps one of the top ten most influencial figures of the 20th century: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who died last week at the age of 84.
In my own small way I wanted “to do something” to honor this great man. When it was announced that his body would lie in state in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., I knew in a moment that I wanted to be there. As I drove pass the Supreme Court building just after dusk a line ran down the front stairs, onto the sidewalk and dowrn the block (thousands had already paid homage before me that day).
It was 6:10 p.m. in the evening. Selfishly, I thought, (I’ll be standing out in the cold, in that line, long after 10 p.m.!) The time the doors would close.
Yet, I felt in my heart that standing in that line, to file quietly pass his flag-draped coffin was the least I
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