Pain which cannot forget

[selenak]

re: 9/11. It's so difficult to separate the memories of nine years ago with that came after. Recently I came across a speech made decades earlier which nonetheless, to me, has a great resonance in what it says about grief, outrage at murder and what we do next. It's by Robert Kennedy, who was campaigning (and didn't have many more months to live himself) in Indianapolis when Martin Luther King was killed. He was the one who broke the news to a largely black audience in Indianapolis in an impromptu oration. This is what he said: