Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:06:15 -0600
Reply-To: Larry Alofs <lalofs@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Larry Alofs <lalofs@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: NO POLITICS ON THE LIST was: Crowded at the polls today
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Here's another vote for Al. I found it just the opposite of divisive.
Inspiring, inclusive, touching. Why should patriotism in the best sense of
the word be considered politics?
Admittedly NVC, but election day doesn't come on Friday.
Larry A.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well here is a vote for Al, I found nothing offensive in his post. And
> David, if you did, then why did you re-send Als post with your message?
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM, David Marshall
> <mailinglist@fastforward.ca>wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > >
> >
>
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