Video: Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial unveiled; official opening is August 28th; watch the Virtual Tour

The MLK Memorial, which officially opens on August 28th, is located by the Tidal Basin between the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials on The National Mall, Washington, D.C.

Virtual Tour of Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Washington, D.C.

http://youtu.be/CaYN1TJLCG0

http://www.mlkmemorial.org/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/martin-luther-king-jr-memorial-unveiled/2011/08/22/gIQAN3CZWJ_video.html

Regular readers of this blog will recall that I've written before that though I was born in San Antonio, I was a seven-year old First Grader growing-up in Memphis when Dr. King was assassinated there.

On the night of April 4, 1968, my family and I went out to our neighborhood McDonald's and when we got back to our apt., I walked into the living room and turned on our black-and-white TV, and within a few minutes, everything changed...

ABC News video: ABC News correspondent Tom Jarriel reports LIVE from Memphis, with Bob Young and Peter Jennings reporting from New York.

http://youtu.be/pi6NeuFr5Us

We moved to South Florida three months later, arriving on a very warm July day via Delta Airlines the day after Larry Csonka signed his first contract with the Dolphins, which was front page news in the Miami Herald as I could tell when we walked past the vending machines at the airport.

CBS News: CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite announces the assassination of Dr. King in Memphis.

http://youtu.be/cmOBbxgxKvo

Like Rust, Water ALWAYS Wins: Flash floods in Cornwall, and the real fear of flooding on The National Mall and downtown Washington, D.C.

Channel 4 News - Floods hit Cornwall
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid601325122001?bctid=678927206001

See also: http://www.channel4.com/news/cornwall-floods-more-rain-expected

Latest news on the floods in Cornwall:
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Cornwall%2C+floods

By the way, in case you forgot. Camilla, the wife of Prince Charles, is the Duchess of Cornwall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla,_Duchess_of_Cornwall

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The Washington Post
A wall on the Mall protects against a long shot By Michael E. Ruane
Tuesday, November 16, 2010; B01

Eighty thousand cubic yards of dirt. Thirty steel girders. An eight-foot-high concrete wall.

All to hold back floodwaters that may, or may not, surge across the Mall in the next century or so.

But in the apocalyptic, post-Hurricane Katrina world, no chances can be taken.

So government officials announced Monday morning that work is about to start on a $9 million flood-control project that will alter the landscape of the Mall west of the Washington Monument to protect it, and part of Washington, from potential catastrophe.

Read the rest of the post at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/15/AR2010111507471.html

See also: National Coalition to Save Our Mall

http://www.savethemall.org

http://www.channel4.com/news/