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Letter from Waldo Johnston

Who Could Not Agree with This?

To make his bold dreams come true
MLK told us what we should do.
He said our worth should be measured
By the values we lived by and treasured,
And not by our faith, gender or hue.

Waldo Johnston
Vero Beach, Florida and Cooperstown

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