I just got this message from family back in Pennsylvania. http://www.wnep.com/videobeta/e7e72058-c32c-4262-af59-19ea59c95147/News/Schuylkill-County-Begins-Bicentennial-Celebration
The small county where I was born is celebrating their bicentennial. The video showed veterans pulling out flags 100 yards long and speaking of their time overseas and how their children and grandchildren our now serving. It got me thinking about our country’s foundation and how democracy was won, not given to us. People fought battles to have the right to choose everyday matters in their lives and most importantly, the right to decide who would lead and govern their nation.
I know that our elections for our district may seem small compared to events in Egypt and Wisconsin, but they are based on the same principle: each person has the right to choose! As the Young Professionals Committee, we have a duty to promote elections within our profession and our district, to make it an important decision in each athletic trainer’s life. We can sit around and talk about salaries, concussion articles that some reporter got wrong, or how many hours we put in, but unless we take advantage of our right to vote, we cannot place blame. If we chose to get involved at easiest level of informed voting, we make our voices heard. We can take that onto other levels of involvement, but we MUST at least savor the moment and utilize our privilege and right to vote!
Our District Representative nominations are in and the YPC will be posting the candidates’ answers to questions, PLEASE take advantage of this opportunity to get informed and then make your decision and VOTE!
The small county where I was born is celebrating their bicentennial. The video showed veterans pulling out flags 100 yards long and speaking of their time overseas and how their children and grandchildren our now serving. It got me thinking about our country’s foundation and how democracy was won, not given to us. People fought battles to have the right to choose everyday matters in their lives and most importantly, the right to decide who would lead and govern their nation.
I know that our elections for our district may seem small compared to events in Egypt and Wisconsin, but they are based on the same principle: each person has the right to choose! As the Young Professionals Committee, we have a duty to promote elections within our profession and our district, to make it an important decision in each athletic trainer’s life. We can sit around and talk about salaries, concussion articles that some reporter got wrong, or how many hours we put in, but unless we take advantage of our right to vote, we cannot place blame. If we chose to get involved at easiest level of informed voting, we make our voices heard. We can take that onto other levels of involvement, but we MUST at least savor the moment and utilize our privilege and right to vote!
Our District Representative nominations are in and the YPC will be posting the candidates’ answers to questions, PLEASE take advantage of this opportunity to get informed and then make your decision and VOTE!
On a side note: Please remember that March is National Athletic Training Month. More information can be found at nata.org or swata.org. This is the perfect time to get out and educate your workplace, schools and community about who athletic trainers are and what we do as health care professionals!!!
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