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"What's going to happen to the dream now that the man who had it is dead?" my 5-year-old son asked me

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The question from my preschooler came out of the blue: "What's going to happen to the Dream now that the man who had it is dead?" My son's question came as he was sitting in his booster seat in the back seat of the car and I was driving us from his preschool to dinner.  "Wow! Where did that come from? And how do I answer it?" went through my mind. It had been about six months since my son, then 5, had gone to Memphis for my brother's wedding. While there, we visited the site where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lost his life to an assassin's bullet on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.  Attached to that preserved landmark is the National Civil Rights Museum. It's a fabulous museum every parent should take their child if they get a chance.  It's much more important than a Disney trip.  (He went there too -- with his Mom.) ;-)  One of the exhibits has a bus like the one where Rosa Parks kept her seat and dignity near the front.  As we