MCLB hosts MLK Service

(ALBANY, GA)- For more than 25 years, the Marine Corps Logistics Base has honored the legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in January.

In this year’s ceremony, they focused on Dr Shirley Greene-Reese, one of the Leesburg Stockade girls during the civil rights movement.

She says, ”This story is serious, very serious. So I feel that the people on this base have realized that we need to be, they need to be a part of what I’m about. And they have shown that today…”

Dr Greene-Reese has spent the last few years telling the story about ore than a dozen girls who were imprisoned in the stockade for protesting segregation.

This past Fall, the stockade was even made an official historical site.

And through tears, Dr Greene-Reese knows that it wasn’t for nothing.

“When you’re talking about the things that we have gone through, you know ‘that’s not real’ ‘that’s not reality’ ‘that’s not fit for human beings’ it’s not fit for anybody. But we made a sacrifice, and we struggled, and we made a difference,” Dr Greene-Reese tells us.

To Commanding Officer, Colonel Alfonso Trimble, Dr Reeses’ struggles in the Leesburg Stockade are incredibly close to the values of the marine corps.

“She’s told a remarkable story about perseverance, tenacity, and resiliency. And a lot things that, as the general had mentioned, resonates with a lot of Marines.”

Phoebe Memorial Hospital will be continuing to honor Dr King with a Day of Monday morning with the Flint River Fresh Community Garden.

That will take place at 209 West 5th Avenue Monday morning at 10 A.M.