By Veryl Victoria Miles | Catholic Standard

“Has anybody here seen my old friend Martin?” are lyrics from a song entitled Abraham, Martin and John, written by Dick Holler. It is a haunting song recalling the legacies of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, whose lives are associated with the hope for and pursuit of freedom by the oppressed people of their times, and whose lives would be violently ended by assassins because of what they did to secure that freedom. Verses in the song ask if we have seen Abraham, Martin, John and Bobby and where have they gone? It then poses the questions, “Didn’t you love the things that they stood for? Didn’t they try to find some good for you and me?”