Millerton News Opinion/Viewpoint

Thank you, Stissing Center, for a smooth Election Day

We’re not in the habit of writing letters, but the experience we had on Election Day in Pine Plains motivates this one. 

We both want to say “thank you” to all the people who ran the Pine Plains voting at The Stissing Center. They did a superb job. 

On this post-election morning, I am retiring my worn and tattered American flag, which has served its purpose flying proudly and honorably for more than a year representing freedom and the ideals this nation was founded upon. It is now folded into 13 precise triangles, but it will never be forgotten. 

Life, especially a calm and orderly life, depends on trust — trust in your environment, trust in your fellow citizen, trust in your own safety. Without trust in these three areas, you live in fear.

By the time you read this editorial, hopefully, you’ll know who has won most of the races in this year’s election. At least, we think so. We also hope that you’ll have a pretty strong indication of who our next president will be. 

‘Unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness,” says the Declaration of Independence. What Jefferson was saying is that we should aspire to these rights, unalienable or not at the time, and thereby create a more perfect union of commonality.

This year has dealt us a medley of tragedy, hope, despair, optimism, pessimism, distrust, social divide, compassion, caring, hatred, intolerance, suffering and heroism — it’s been an eye opener to the evil that exists in this world. A virus was unleashed upon us from another land, though it denies such charges.