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The Ball State Daily News - OUR VIEW: Election 2004:#posted by Dave 6:23:00 AM
Elevenscore and some eight years ago, a handful of important men created an unprecedented document that helped set forth the way in which you live today.
At that time, they could not have imagined, nor predicted the ways in which this country and this world would change.
And right now, nor can you.
Instead, those men went out and made decision based upon the knowledge they had and the future in which they saw.
Oddly enough, that's all you can do, too.
In those 200-plus years, wars have been waged, struggles have been had and words have been exchanged. Men and women have perished for the price of the living within these borders. Some knew the risks, others were merely innocent bystanders. In either situation, they gave their lives so that you could sit here today and read these very words under your own free will.
It's under the same umbrella which grants you certain inalienable truths and rights.
Your right to live.
Your right to freedom.
Your right to choose.
Our forefathers did not slave over documents for us to sit idly while decisions are made around us. This was not what America was founded on or for, nor is it what it should be treated as.
We are the United States of America, land of the free and home of the brave.
We are a Democracy.
We are individuals.
Individuals with a choice to make.
Today, show your neighbors, your friends, your country and this world that you are a living, breathing human with a mind and intelligence of your own.
Today, prove your worth.
Vote.
