Women have not had the right to vote for very long, in reality. As soon as I read about The March I wanted to pack my bags and head for D.C. My Grandmother, born in 1899, was ahead of her fellow suffragettes and had a job driving the Model A rural mail truck.  I would like to march beside those I can relate to.  Beside those who feel the same alienation and despair for our democracy, human and women’s rights protections, and the conservation of our environmental quality and public lands.  Our Veterans must be given proper healthcare, along with all citizens. The uncertainty of a Trump Presidency is “bigly”.

I’m overwhelmed that we were attacked by Russia, and the PEOTUS’s response bewilders me.  I am of the Vietnam era, and my husband is a Combat Disabled Vietnam Veteran.  During which time our high schools were on lock down EVERY day due to the race riots of the late 60’s.  The Cold War was also real.  They had us hiding under our desks during atomic bomb drills, while rockets carried great men to the moon. That’s reality, not what’s on TV.  We’ve been lied to before.  Those lies cost thousands of lives and suffering.  We must not let our rights be dickered away by a billionaire administration and consensual branches of government.  The outrage towards Trump’s moral indiscretions are astoundingly accepted by his constituents.  His conflicts of interest and lack of tax returns blatantly withheld.

I find my heart too ill and my joints full of arthritis in the fall of my life for such a journey to a city I know well from another lifetime in my youth.  For it is the youth, and the young at heart, who must win this battle, and all to come  I salute those who stand and March!