Just a few who earned the right to attend today’s inauguration but cannot

Some of us didn't finally make it across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to see this dawn.

Let us call their names aloud.

Meteor Blades at the Daily Kos began a list:

Martin Luther King Jr. would be 80 now if he hadn't been gunned down. Medgar Evers would be 84 if he hadn't been gunned down. William L. Moore would be 81 if he hadn't been gunned down. Viola Liuzzo would be 83 if she hadn't been gunned down. Herbert Lee would be 98 if he hadn't been gunned down. ONeal Moore would be 78 if he hadn't been gunned down. The Rev. James Reeb would be 82 if he hadn't been beaten to death. Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson would be 59, and Denise McNair and Cynthia Wesley would be 56 if they hadn't been blown up in church. Fred Hampton would be 60 if he hadn't been gunned down. The Rev. Bruce Klunder would be 72 if he hadn't been run over by a bulldozer.

Those who I wish had lived to see this day are Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. ...

I wish those three brave men were in Washington today to see how far we've come, how far they and thousands of martyrs like them have brought us. Not yet all the way to freedom and equality, but farther down the road than we've ever been.

There are so many.