Voted Today - 2022

After I voted today I realized that it was 50 years ago yesterday that I voted for the first time. It was the Nixon vs McGovern presidential election in 1972 and the voting age had just changed from 21 to 18 years old. At the time I was overseas on a US Navy ship. I was going to turn 21 in a month and would have missed voting in this election if the voting law hadn't just changed. 

I also voted by mail from my ship somewhere off the coast of Central America. Probably Panama. Voting by mail worked back then for us in the military and it works today for everyone.

Yes, I keep one of my dog tags on my keychain.