On this Memorial Day specifically, it might be good to remember the names Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, and Carol Robertson......Four little girls who gave their lives as the result of a terrorist attack in Birmingham, Alabama in September of 1963. Their deaths brought a new focus to the Civil Rights movement and made "fence sitting" an impossibility. Two days ago and after 38 years, the last of the bombers was finally found guilty.

It is incumbent on us to right the wrongs whenever we can and to take measures to insure it doesn't happen again. As schoolchildren learn of this verdict, this case, they will learn a significant, if not shining, part of our history and in the learning will find that freedom is more than just a word.

Spaw