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(above) "If you don't find yourself in the voting booth you may find yourself in combat boots in the desert," said says Justin Sane, Anti-Flag singer and guitarist, a member of the Punk Voter coalition, which is seeking to register a half-million voters this year. Below, Sane, cleaned up for a voter rally in Iowa, with that state's Governor, Tom Vilsack.

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The week of Jan. 12, 2004, Tom Barnard, of Longview TX, won PeprallyUSA.com's Pic of the Week contest with the photograph above. Mr. Barnard, a graphic designer at LeTourneau University, used a 2.1 megapixel digital camera, the Canon Powershot Pro90IS, to capture an enormously poignant moment in the life of Vietnam Veteran Denzil Messman. Mr. Messman was presented with his own dogtags, which were lost in 1968, in Viet Nam. The presentation was made by Illinois businessman and Korean War vet, V.R. Roskam, who, with his wife, Martha, had salvaged three dozen of the identification tags from a street vendor in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, in 2001.(click to read more)

Danny Huff and other Single Volunteers of Central Florida staff the no-money-needed Ice Cream Palace at Give Kids The World (Kissimmee, FL) twice a month for three and a half hours, serving up sundaes, splits and shakes to ailing children.

Across America, Singles Find Friends And Satisfaction By Volunteering
by Dana Johnston

In the year 2000, Danny Huff, at 34, was making good money, and he started to feel that he wanted to share some of his good fortune with others, to give something back. He was not involved with organized religion, so he began to look around at various volunteering activities. He considered becoming a Big Brother, and "liked the idea of it, but it was a huge commitment." Since he'd never done any volunteering before, he thought it best to try another way of volunteering to get his feet wet.

Single Volunteers of Central Florida(SVCF) turned out to be just the opening he needed. An unmarried man, he learned of the organization, one of two dozen chapters across the nation, via a radio station web site.

"It interested me because all the volunteer activites are 'one shot deals,'" he says. Typically, a volunteer makes a particular commitment for a particular day, a particular amount of time, and a particular activity, all of his/her own choosing.

Mr. Huff also liked SVCF because it was "not a dating service dressed up as someting else" but it would provide him with an opportunity to meet single women casually.

"Im a big romantic," he says. "I didn't think I would meet the love of my life through the personal ads or in a bar. I thought I'd come across a girl next door, or something like that." (click to read more)

DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, WHATEVER!
YOUNG AMERICANS URGED TO REGISTER, VOTE

In 2000, only only 29 percent of the 8.4 million people aged 18 to 24 voted for any presidential candidate,despite MTV's Rock the Vote campaign and other go-vote efforts. This year the focus on activating young voters stretches from the Daytona 500 where the GOP parked its "race to victory" bus, to Superbowl week in Houston where Hip Hop luminaries signed up 50,000 new voters, to Punk Rock Voter Registration web sites and public speaking efforts by both conservative and liberal punkers, to the National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement, where 16 of America's leading colleges and universities have banded together to promote civic and voter participation.

Whether or not the young voters will turn out is anybody's guess, although in 1972, during the Viet Nam war, 43 percent of young people voted. With the everpresent threat of terrorism, military conflicts in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and talk of reviving the draft circulating in the news, young people may feel they have more at stake with this vote than they have in years past.