This coming Monday marks the American federal holiday that celebrates the birthday of the most important civil rights figure in the history of the United States: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — who was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.

People all across the country will honor the life of the inspirational leader, a man who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and gave one of the most beloved and iconic speeches on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.

YOU very well may be one of those who toast to King, and remember and cherish his dream on Monday. That’s great. It would be so very American of you.

Whatever you do, however, don’t dare do what this U.S. Air Force squadron (78th Support Squadron) did down in Georgia.

They tried to pair a target practice gun shoot party with the memory of Dr. King, and mash it all in on a flyer.

NO, seriously, they did this:

King was assassinated — with a gun — by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.

This from the New York Daily News:

Robins Air Force base’s Leroy Minus told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that the flyer was created by a marketing team, and apologized for associating the slain leader killed with target practice.

“We realized the inappropriateness of the advertisement several days ago and immediately began removing the flyer,” a statement said, adding that the Air Force did not want to cast the nonviolent resistance leader in a negative light.

The statement said that it was an “honest mistake” but that those involved will receive remedial training.

The flyer was “like a piece of hate mail,” Rutha Jackson, president of the Houston County, Ga., NAACP, told The Macon Telegraph.