MLK's dream closer but work remains

Chaplain Maj. Sheila Wilson, the featured speaker at the Martin Luther King Prayer Breakfast, is presented with a momento of her appearance by Joe B. McNeal as Mountain Home Black History Committee chairwoman Mildred McNeal looks on.

Chaplain Maj. Sheila Wilson told the 70 people attending Saturday morning's Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast that "it may be the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition that it is not the words of bad people, but the silence of good people" when it comes to the issue of discrimination.

Wilson, a chaplain on base who described herself as just a civilian Baptist preacher at the banquet, was the featured speaker for the morning event at the Elk's Lodge that saw religious leaders from throughout the city offer prayers for unity, thanksgiving, family, health, strength and peace.

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