from Montgomery and I've been down here with a sake Shakespeare

and I've enjoyed this activity very much but the

Montgomery in 1963 my father was a lifelong

had lots of family down in Butler County and my mother was born in Tennessee

Birmingham later and went to college in Birmingham my father at 17

went back down to Butler County and finish High School and then went to college where he met my

then he became an officer in the army I had what I think of is a very

times and on Military facilities where the

new people and felt comfortable to change and then we went in

eight years old and in the third grade moving to the South although my parents were from the south was a

my parents use pejorative terms racist terms

and in my father's mine anyone who worked hard and sacrifice for the

and when I came here it was the George Wallace era there was a

done I have never been around it I have never I didn't understand it

I was at an elementary school here in Montgomery that fall when John Kennedy

out of the school and as soon as we walked out the front doors people

know excited that Kennedy had been shot but today again

look forward and I saw my mother's car I was normally a bus student and I said

ride home on the bus hearing all that because I knew that

home with that kind of language in Celebration obviously my

devastated my mother was devastated I was devastated our whole family but that was not the exact same

so that year you know I managed to get through that year and I didn't hate being here I made

understand racism and never will and then my father was

Fort Benning in Georgia where we again lived on a military facility

were two years of bliss really for me and that was

of the most active periods of the civil rights movement that was

right in the middle of a lot of what we know of as a civil Civil Rights Movement

about it that I got to see it and I did not see the vitriol after

the 5th grade my dad was into Vietnam and we moved back to the move back to Montgomery

that time I was a little older I was more mature and I was more aware of what's going

not understand the racism and the cruelty way you know what kind of model Don

about why people do what they do and what is their history and what is their

had grown up in an environment where all the kids were knew

a friend you know when you're in military housing people come and go all the time and people are opening

fabulous childhood so my dad went to Vietnam he came back

here in Montgomery and I remained I love the sound I love

kindness that is exhibited most of the time I like the civility most of the

the videos of you know Martin Luther King being assassinated at remember

to hatred in a way that I didn't understand and then after that Bobby Kennedy I now

know people story and how they have come to where

their experience that is Led them after believe and make the choices that they

each person's Journey I'm also very curious and I am surprised when other people are not

was living in the country I no longer recognized I think I I felt like I was living in a city and a state

very much like what I walked into when I was 8 years old and I thought would never

the opportunity that I was going to respectfully share my opinion

about my thoughts on what was going on my husband is an attorney

we episcopalians and people would think that people

be a very conservative White privileged Republican

I started to speak out people said they were surprised

they were liberal leave they were so relieved to hear me comment and thankful that I

don't mind saying things that are unpopular but I

I said and respectful and want to know the beliefs of other people so I'm really

a tremendous amount of passion for explaining the Stat Health and let people know that

love the sound but I am an independent thinker and want to see the South

I have Matt Moore Progressive thinking people and it has been a tremendous

the dance that I've participated in again is this one as well as the opening of the

the memorial for peace and justice that weekend

find honor and integrity and the values that I was raised with of

as Winston Churchill said Americans always do the right thing

in a positive way thank you thank you so much God bless Montgomery

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