Ya know... I'm gonna go into a rant here....

<RANT>
I can go to cnn.com or news.google.com and get all the news about the US
election.� The Canadian election came and went and not a peep on the
list - nor would I expect it to be on this list.

Politics, sex
and religion are not conversions for mixed company nor the Vanagon list...
unless there is a polling station in your Vanagon I and most others don't
want to hear about it.
</RANT>

David Marshall
VW Adventure Driver and BMW Adventure Rider
 
http://www.hasenwerk.ca

On Tue, November 4, 2008 06:47, Al
Knoll wrote:
> 
> It's going to be crowded at the polls. 
There'll be a lot of people
> you don't know there.  Some will be
there to vote and some to
> 
> help others vote but
another group will be there too.  They're quiet.
> You hardly
notice them there in booth with you.
> 
> With names like
Smith, Jones, Brown, Gonzales, Nakamoto, Chan, Begay,
> and others
they stand there with you.  They
> 
> wear odd clothing. 
Some have three cornered hats, some have rags
> around their feet,
others are dressed in tattered and
> 
> faded, blue or
grey uniforms.  Some wear the baggy stripes of
> prisoners, some
have tiger stripe fatigues, they're all  with you
> 
>
there in the voting booth.
> 
> They've stood before in
places as close as the bridge at Concord or
> the angle at
Gettysburg or in places as far away as
> 
> Belleau Wood,
Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Chosin Reservoir, Ia Drang, Khe
> Sahn,
Mogadishu, Fallujah and others.  They're truck
> 
>
drivers, nurses, mechanics, pilots, rebels, cooks, clerks, riflemen,
> artillerymen, tank commanders, rangers, and patriots.
> 
> They're standing with you today as they stood for you in places
and
> times far away to be sure you excercise your freedom
> 
> and responsibility to vote.
> 
> You'll
not see them, but they're there just the same, watching while
>
you make your mark on history.   Vote today.
>