From: Rick Rodell
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 11:30 AM
To: AllEmployees
Subject: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

As you are all aware today is a day set aside to honor Dr. King. I grew up in the North and was exposed to a different kind of racism than what I remembered seeing on television that was taking place in places like Selma, Montgomery, and even here in Memphis. Dr. King helped make great strides, but we as a world, and as a nation would appear to have a long way to go. Dr. King was also concerned with poverty, and that is certainly evident around the world and here in America. One only had to watch the pictures of New Orleans after Katrina to realize just how much poverty there is in this country, nor is it confined to one group. I believe if he were alive today, poverty would be at the forefront of what he would be working on. You can agree or disagree with him, but you cannot ignore what he did. As we go about our business today, and we are because our rail partners are working, take a minute to ponder how you view those that appear different from yourself. Take a moment to think about how you respond to an e-mail that is racist, or a joke. Maybe if we responded with silence, or e-mailed back that this is inappropriate, maybe, just maybe, we could make a difference in our part of the world. Dr. King had a dream. A dream that one day his children would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by their character. Isn't that what any of us wants for our children; for ourselves?

Rick Rodell
Chairman /CEO
Cornerstone Systems
Memphis, Tn.
901.842.1017
rrodell@cornerstone-systems.com