A word about voting this November. . .

Last week marked the 94th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, the congressional act that gave woman the right to vote.  My mother taught my sister and me that voting was a sacred trust because she well remembered how important that right was to her mother and to her.

My mother was born in the United States, but her mother came to America as a very young woman from the town of Gyngos in Hungary.  Her proudest days were when she became an American citizen and that historic moment in 1920 when she cast her first vote. Mother told us how she took off from work on election day to accompany my grandmother to the polls because she knew there would be many people (read that as men) objecting to the ridiculous idea of women voting.  And object they did, hooting and hollering in a threatening manner as lines of proud women walked bravely up to the voting place for the very first time in our nation's history..

Democrat, Republican or Independent.  Man or woman. The right to vote is very precious. If you don't express your opinion at the ballot box this November, you have no right to complain.

Need I say more????
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