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Letter to the editor: Mail-in voting is an insult to our heroes’ sacrifices

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1 Min Read Aug. 6, 2020 | 5 years Ago
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Valley Forge, Fort McHenry, Gettysburg, San Juan Hill, Belleau Wood, Normandy/Iwo Jima, Pusan, Khe Sanh, Baghdad, Gamsir.

It is safe to say the nation’s youth that found themselves in those places would have preferred to have been somewhere else that was safe or “in the rear with the gear.” Yet they risked life and limb for fundamental liberties and national ideals.

In regard to mail-in voting: Aside from serving on some far-flung front line, working out of town contributing to the GDP, or being too infirm or too advanced in age — if you are too lazy or too fearful to risk a few minutes at your polling precinct, virus or not (you assume risk going to the grocery store) — then maybe you are undeserving of the privilege to vote.

A mail-in vote is an insult to the expended blood and deprivations experienced by the few to ensure the liberties of the many.

David A. Scandrol

Lower Burrell

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