Every year we take John and the girls over to the huge Christmas light display at the Duluth harbor. Every year something new is added and when I saw this display I had to take a picture. We seem to forget about the tens of thousands of men and women who can't be home for the holidays; some to never return. Then I thought about our illustrious senators and representatives who in their haste to beat feet home, passed a bill cutting benefits for some of our soldiers. What? Huh? Can that be? Oh, I'm guessing once they wander back to Washington, pointing fingers at each other all the way, they'll figure out a way to right this wrong (blaming someone else of course). A lot of words come to mind, some of which I won't put in print. How about "pathetic"?
The tour at Bentleyville is free but you are asked to bring a food item to help fill the local food shelves. As we walked up with our sack, I only saw two other bags in the tote boxes. As we left I walked by a few hundred people entering and only saw one woman with a bag in her hands. Maybe all these other people couldn't afford a can of soup or a can of corn but from the looks of them, most of these folks weren't hurting for a meal. It was sad. I guess I expected more out of my fellow Northlanders.
