Words to think about on MLK Jr. Day from speech in which he talked of "a society gone mad on war."

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

-- Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

Photo: Taken on my visit to Arlington National Cemetery in 2009, a deeply moving experience.