it behooves americans not only to pause and consider their war dead even if just doing so by pondering the anonymous tale of a single lapidary name but also to think about a contemporary society where the whole concept of such binding sacrifice is equally dead the end of shared sacrifice set in stone yale as metaphor after handing over my id and briefly waiting i was given my ballot and directed to a booth where i could vote upon completion i scanned my vote thats when i witnessed something i hoped i would never see a young africanamerican male was being denied the right to vote floridas voting fiasco