Muhammad Ali: He Really *Was* The Greatest

It's really hard to describe how prevalent Muhammad Ali was in the prevailing culture of my youth: he was a well-known boxer, star of his own Saturday morning cartoon, and a person bordering on omnipresent.

What I didn't learn until much later was that he was remarkable in another way.

During the Vietnam War, Muhammad Ali - having changed his name from "Cassius Clay" after converting to Islam - publicly declared that he would not serve in Vietnam.

My memory is hazy on the details (learning about...