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Vote-In Honor of a Veteran
kristen b 3 months ago // 1 response // Subscribe Military Life Gibber-gabber

Vote-In Honor of a Veteran

During the history of our great “Nation, conceived in Liberty” millions of Americans fought a relentless battle against the enemies of freedom with no alternative but to succeed. When faced with such perilous challenges men and women have risked everything with tremendous courage, hope and perseverance to protect these freedoms. The most basic of these freedoms for Americans is the right to vote.

Since the ratification of the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to 18 in 1972, our country has observed a 20% decrease in voting among 19-24 year olds. It has been estimated in recent elections that although this generation makes up 39% of the voting age population, less than 20% of them go to the polls. We must, therefore, look to young Nebraskan’s who are still in school to help lead us out of this trend by becoming active citizens and life-long voters.

One way we can try to instill the importance of voting into this age group is by using one of our most valuable resources-our veterans. The lives of these men and women are heroic as they made sacrifices to ensure our democracy and the freedom it sheds upon us all endures. By casting your vote you are not only selecting your preference for candidates and issues on the ballots, you are honoring our veterans and supporting our form of government.

Vote – Say “Thanks for your sacrifice”

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beingzoe

Yes, thank you!

Please vote. If you cannot honestly support the candidates listed, use your right-in option to at least make it clear that you are not pleased with the options. No vote is wasted, unless you simply vote party lines, and don’t even think about the issues.

I wanted to thank Kristen again for bringing some politics to CoTradeCo and for reminding us how precious our form of government is.

 
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