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It's hard to know whether Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream included a vision of this moment: to be standing on this deck on this Fourth of July in this town among these people.

But you have to think it did.

Part of King's dream, etched into the American conscience in that impassioned 1963 speech, was that his "four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

And now, some 40 years later, at least from where I stand, it appears this dream is coming true.

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