Shoulder to shoulder

Wednesday was the 100^th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. That was the one that granted women the national vote.

This was a major milestone on the journey to making real the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, that all humans are created equal. Generations of women fought, suffered indignities and died—literally—for the right to vote. We still have miles and miles to go, but we should still honor them.

So today, my Friday earworm is the anthem of the women’s suffrage movement, “The March of the Women”, with lyrics written by Dame Edyth Smythe in 1910. Crank up the volume and thank them.