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Citizens' rights
The swearing-in as American citizens of Amissville teenagers Sam and Kevin Kilhefner two weeks ago was a clear demonstration that the system of immigration that built this ' country is alive and well.
The Kilhefners were born in Africa and lived in Liberia and Siera Leone, a part of the world where elections are quite different and democracy takes much different forms.
Sam and Kevin said one of the things they most looked forward to is voting when they are 18. Their father John, who married the boys’ mother in Africa and adopted them, said that their early memories of Election Day are fearful ones.
Here in the United States, the scenes at polling places on - the first Tuesday in November are almost always congenial and polite, even when opposing politicians are doing lastminute campaigning outside. ' It’s too bad that the Kilhefner boys will learn that in the United States voting freely and safely is not only taken for - granted, most citizens don’t even bother to do it.
It sometimes takes the fresh perspective of those who weren’t born into all of the wonderful rights we have here to make us all realize that they didn’t come easily to our founding fathers.
There has been tremendous progress in the area of voter registration in the past 10 years, but much needs to be done. Voters in Rappahannock would do well to remember Sam and Kevin Kilhefner when it’s time to vote for constitutional officers and supervisors in November.
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