On Memorial Day we commemorate the lives of those who died so that we might enjoy freedom 
Including Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Sgt. Medgar Evers, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Little Bobby Hutton, Emmett Till, James Chaney, Vernon Dahmer
Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, who were little girls in a church basement preparing for Sunday School
Jimmie Lee Jackson was murdered by police when attempting to protect his mom, who was trying to protect his 82 yr old grandfather- who was being clubbed by police on the floor of a cafe. A trooper threw Jackson against a cigarette machine, where another shot him twice in stomach
The day of this terrorist attack, "Virgil Lamar Ware, 13, was riding on the handlebars of his brother’s bicycle when he was fatally shot by white teenagers. The white youths had come from a segregationist rally held in the aftermath of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing"
Virgil Ware, who died that I might be free
Little Bobby Hutton, seventeen, who died for the freedoms we enjoy
Chairman Fred Hampton, twenty, who died that we might be free (murdered in his sleep, as was his boy Mark Clark)
Emmett Till, kidnapped, tortured & murdered behind a false accusation, aged 14.
Mack Parker, kidnapped from jail (there on a phony charge) in 1959 at age 23, lynched & thrown into the Pearl River
