Monday, November 3, 2008

Vote!

Our freedom and our rights are precious. They've been defended at great sacrifice by so many. How can we even contemplate failing to protect them by not exercising our long fought right to vote?

And the fight was indeed long, particularly for women:

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.
Alice Rossi, _The Feminist Papers_ (1973)

Seventy-five years it took, count 'em! And women have only had that right for eighty-eight years. Lest we forget the struggle, here are some images:



I'll be voting tomorrow with gratitude, respect, and excitement.
Hope you will be, too. :)

Aloha...

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