Opinion
Veterans All
From earlier Gazette editions:
A CANDIDATE’S THANKS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Vineyard residents currently on active duty In the armed services:
Jordan Baptiste
Mason Berry
James Hagerty
Craig Sylvia
Ryan Rossi
Michael Blake
Jared Meader
Travis Bissey
Jack Van Bourgondien
Anthony Sullo
Jeremy Evans
Vineyard residents who are Iraq and Afghanistan veterans:
Jared Meader
Travis Bissey
Michael Blake
Daniel Dunlop
Richard Monaco
Ron MacLaren
November 5, 2008
The horse is Obama
The geese are Obama
The green field is Obama
The trees on the ridge are Obama
The clouds are Obama
The blue sky is Obama
The woman who cries is Obama
The boy who became a man is Obama
The husband who is away is Obama
The friend who says wow is Obama
The black woman who voted for McCain is Obama
Election Clerks
Early Tuesday morning at the polls in West Tisbury a young woman carrying a box of muffins politely threaded her way through the line of voters that snaked out of the public safety building onto the sidewalk. The muffins were for the poll workers who had been there since before seven o’clock. As if reading the minds of all who stood outside on this mild autumn morning, most on their way to work, one voter turned to another and said, “Aren’t we lucky to live here?”
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