First, to all the people who didn’t make it to see this day. David H. Andrew. The missing from the Lower Ninth. Steve Gilliard. Jim Capozzola. Molly Ivins. All the dead in Iraq and Afghahistan. Martin and Malcolm. Rosa and Medgar. Emmett Till. Cesar and Abbie. Jack and Bobby. Toot. Everyone whose time on this earth ran out before their hope did.
Second… to the new President-elect of these United States. Here’s to you, sir.
And let’s remember that it’s a day you, Glenn Haumann, have done precisely nothing to bring about.
And you know this how, nameless?