If you don't vote.....don't bitch!

There are less than 36 hours until an election that has many very tight races. 
The results of the election could sway the direction of our state and our country for years to come. 
I understand if not everybody wants to be involved in Labor walks and phone banks. 
And that's cool,
I get it. 
However, many have died since 1775 for this country and for our right to vote. 
Many of you have served in the military, or had family members serve, many have lost buddies, lovers and family.  Many others have returned injured.
They had one purpose, to ensure our right to vote. 
Many minorities and women were beaten and even hung in this country, striving for the right to vote. 
If we cannot take 20 minutes out of our lives and vote on Tuesday, do we not disrespect these brave people? 
As Abraham Lincoln said:
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Please, please, please, vote Tuesday. 
And please, if you don't vote Tuesday, don't bitch

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863