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Muhammad Ali's 65th birthday on January 17, 2007;
Send your personal birthday wish
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Muhammad Ali, who once said, "Old age is just a
record of one's whole life," will be turning 65
years young on January 17. Fans, friends, and
admirers from around the world are invited to help
celebrate the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali by
sending him a personal birthday message during the
month of January.
Participants are also encouraged to contribute, in
Muhammad's honor, a donation to the new Muhammad Ali
Center in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.
Born Cassius Marcellus Clay in 1942, Ali's story is
one of inspiration: champion athlete, media icon,
societal symbol, United Nations Messenger of Peace,
and a beacon of hope to people around the globe for
over four decades. Now the public has a golden
opportunity to express to Muhammad some of the
motivation, joy, and magic he has afforded them over
the years.
Visitors must use the form provided on the Ali
Center's website,
http://www.alicenter.org, to submit their
personal message to be possibly publicly shared. All
birthday wishes will be compiled into a gift
collection for Muhammad.
As a boxer, Ali brought unprecedented speed and
grace to his sport, while his charm and wit changed
forever what the public expected a champion to be.
His accomplishments in the ring were legendary. But
over the years Muhammad transcended from a boxing
champion to a champion of humanity.
He has hand-delivered food and medical supplies to
the Harapan Kita Hospital for Children in Jakarta,
Indonesia, the street children of Morocco, and an
embargoed Cuba. He has participated in goodwill
missions in Afghanistan and North Korea, helped
secure the release of 15 US hostages in Iraq, was
special envoy to Africa, and sought the truth on
POWs and MIAs in Vietnam. At home, Ali has visited
countless soup kitchens and hospitals and assisted
numerous organizations and initiatives including:
adoption agencies, the Special Olympics, children
infected with AIDS, and Parkinson's research and
treatment.
Since opening in November 2005, the Ali Center's
mission is to extend Muhammad's values of respect,
confidence, dedication, giving, hope, and
understanding, worldwide and to promote
cross-cultural dialogue, peacemaking, and conflict
management while inspiring all people to be as great
as they can be. For more information, visit
http://www.alicenter.org.