My grandparents came across the North Atlantic to vote. They lost their first child after two weeks in a lifeboat and then raised six other children. John Derda, my grandpap, worked in the coal mines in Herminie. No thanks. I’ll walk to the polls for them. Then thank everybody working there even if they don’t vote the same way I do.

Walt Peterson

Squirrel Hill

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