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John Reddish has been writing an annual Martin Luther Kind Day Tribute for several years. This year is different. With the election of Barack Obama the next day...This year, I believe, Martin Luther King Day, January 19, 2009 represents the end of a beginning for our American Dream - an end to our violent birth and growth to adulthood as a nation, and an end to lip service paid to promises - still unfulfilled.