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Greene: The champ gets a stamp — honor for Muhammad Ali is well deserved

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What round he would knock out his opponents in wasn’t the only thing boxing legend Muhammad Ali used to predict.

He once said the U.S. government should put his picture on a stamp.

“That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked,” he bragged.

Well, the U.S. Postal Service went ahead and did it. The champ is on a stamp.

“Those of you who knew Muhammad would have relished this moment,” Ali’s longtime wife Lonnie said during an announcement last week in Ali’s hometown of Louisville, Ky.

“I know he would want this moment to be a teaching moment, too. This moment is an invitation to all of us, an invitation to pause and ask ourselves before every word we utter — what stamp am I making on this........

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