First, thank you for an amazing year. I have loved every minute of serving you in my role as Executive Director over the last 12 months. I can assure you that 2010 will be a year that will forever transform both the LPIN and Indiana politics. I thank you for all the hard work that you have put in beside me in the last 12 months to grow the LPIN. But Thanksgiving is not just a day to give thanks for our friends, families, and blessings.

It is also a day to remember the sacrifice that generations before us made in the name of liberty.

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A Freedom of Information Act request is an important, legal tool that is very useful in asking questions of the government. For more information, read this interview Paul McMasters of the Freedom Forum. This story was originally posted at IndyStar.com. Provided by the Society of Professional Journalists. There is a FOIA Letter Generator at http://lpin.org/resources.

Your right to federal government files is established by two federal laws: the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552), enacted in 1966, amended in 1974, 1986 and 1996, and the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a).

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