All of America's fallen heroes are asking you to vote today, no matter what else you do. If you don't, they will have sacrificed in vain. The only objects were the embellishment of society, the protection of life and property, and the defense of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Fallen Ones will sleep more peacefully if we who now carry the responsibility are as willing as they were to endure hardship to preserve our freedom.

Is it raining today? It was raining on Bougainville, Tarawa, and Bataan when they fell. Is it cold outside? It was minus 35 to minus 50 degrees in the skies over Europe when thy fell, trying to bomb the Nazis into submission in non-pressurized planes with open windows. Is it sloppy outside? Many of our Fallen Ones played dead while enemy tanks rolled around them in the Battle of the Bulge. Think of the freezing mud of Korea. In those severe conditions they fought and fell to preserve democracy. Is it too hot? Think of the blistering sands of Iraq. Think of the sailors that died at Pearl Harbor. Wasn't it about 4000 military personnel? Are you too busy today with a million things to do? Think of the Fallen Ones and the million things that each of them had to do that are now forgotten.

Tuesday is election day. Ironically, Saturday is Veterans Day, and the groundbreaking ceremony is supposed to take place in Washington DC for the memorial to WW2. A more fitting memorial would be for you and particularly the young who seem to despise and down our country to exercise your right to vote, and at the same time, to remember the awful price some paid in order to give you this right. At the same time as your first vote, you will then become a part of this great country, and a feeling of belonging will set in. You would have to do nothing else on Saturday to honor them.

The Fallen Ones are not looking for more glory or veneration for themselves. They sleep, some of them in honored graves at Arlington National Cemetery. Some in watery tombs like the 1300 sailors in the USS Arizona, where bubbles of oil still rise to the surface. Some in desert or jungle graves, and ambushes along the Mekong Delta. Some just blown to bits. No, they don't want more glory. Their pain and suffering is over, and the cause they fought for triumphed in the final analysis, except for Viet Nam. They pray to God that you, the next generations will find the moral character and see the wisdom of our Founding Fathers.. They only have one wish. And that is that you honor them by making your voice heard in this representative democracy. That you VOTE!