The Carbon County Democrats entered the Veterans’ Day parade, held this year in Palmerton. The Republicans also entered, with campaign signs and a paper mache elephant.
We thought the parade was about veterans, so we had a banner that read “Be An American Voter” and a second banner telling who we were. We also had a pickup truck with posters thanking American veterans and detailing some of the landmark expansions of the suffrage, such as absentee ballots for Union soldiers (1864) and women’s right to vote, the 19th Amendment, passed in 1920.
As we went by, a bunch of Trump supporters shouted out that Clinton should be in jail. Rene, who was holding the banner with me, shouted back, “Today is about honoring veterans.” Their response was somewhat incoherent.
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