Women’s suffrage was something I read about in a boring history text back in high school. A couple of paragraphs. No class discussion. Women have been able to vote since 1920. Big whoop.
I’ve always voted. I don’t recall ever missing an election. I’ve always thought of it as something I get to do because I’m an American; I live in a democracy.
But that was before today. Today on Time Goes By, there’s a post entitled “Our Right and Duty to Vote.” It’s about what women — American women — went through to get the right to vote.
From now on, those brave women will be foremost in my heart and mind whenever I cast a vote. And I will never pass up an opportunity to exercise the right they won for me.
Very similar to my latest vote. It angers me when people pass up the chance to vote, a chance to change things!
I’m embarrassed to admit how little I actually knew about the suffrage movement. It makes me doubly determined to always vote.
Yet another failure of our educational system. Without understand what it cost, there’s not appreciation of something’s value. Important post.
Excellent point!