It was a typical day for 27 year old Leland J. H. He had just woken up while he heard an airplane taking off near his house. From his house, he then went to work, where he served the city of Memphis by being a firefighter at Fire Station 13. On his way to work he saw some old friends and kept on driving. When he arrived he sat down to eat some breakfast for the day. Later on during the day, they got a call saying that the civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. had just been shot on his balcony near the station. Leland was in complete shock along with all his co-workers and friends. At this time, he served on the ambulances the fire station distributed. They arrived where they got a complaint of someone being hurt and when Leland stepped out of that ambulance, all he saw was complete chaos like Ferguson, Missouri these past couple of weeks. It seemed like people were walking on egg shells and the only way it seemed for people to feel safe is to have a firearm in their pocket for defense. There were riots and fires all around Memphis, so they were quite busy that day. They had to call in the National Guard to try and control the situation, the city government put a 7 p.m. curfew for all personnel. It stopped most of the fighting and rioting, but it didn't stop all of it. People threw bricks at the ambulances, fire trucks, and even squad cars. One of his close friends retired from being hit in the face by a brick flying through the windshield of one of the fire trucks. Before this American tragedy, Leland never really thought much of King. He thought he was an instigator of these situations and he thought he pushed all of things he said onto people. Now, he wasn't racist, he never hated any other race, but he thought King was just a big mouth. Still, he felt sorrowful for the King family and he will remember that day like it was yesterday.