Can't select vertex

How do you force (trick?) SW into actually selecting a vertex or the end of a curve?  It absolutly refuses to select the end of an edge or the vertex where it meets another edge.  I tried measure (nothing), add a point (nothing), make a plane parallel to a reference and go through the vertex/curve end (nothing).  It in general selects a vertex/end if you hover the cursor around till but for this geometry nothing.

-Greg

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