To the mayor’s Youth Council:
You are to be highly commended for your efforts to increase voter turnout and encourage your peers to register as soon as they are eligible. Voting is a great privilege and should never be ignored, because every vote does count. To give Americans this high privilege, thousands and thousands of men and women have fought, died and been permanently wounded. Hundreds and hundreds more have worked for civil rights. Not voting is to dishonor all of those people.
Every American should pause to remember the personal sacrifices that have given us this privilege and then get to the polls, no matter how inconvenient it may seem. Thank you, Youth Council, for your highly significant efforts to engage young – and, indeed, all – Tennesseans to be voters.
Jane Lupton
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