How are they celebrating Memorial Day in Minneapolis?
You would be surprised how many people in the last few years have mentioned to me they simply don’t go to Minneapolis anymore. We have electronic billboards along the major routes in and out that are begging people to come back, but, the impact of the riots, and continued lunacy, started a wholesale abandonment of the town. Commercial property values have dropped to record lows, and the sheer quantity of vacant space is, to use a favorite notion of the left, unsustainable.
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer group.
The National cemetery at Fort Snelling, is not far away, but, technically in St. Paul. That is where my mom and dad are buried. I long ago quit going on holidays, preferring the bit of solitude that a visit during the daytime on a weekday brings. In addition to my folks, my friend Karl, a WWII veteran who survived the sinking of the USS Gambier Bay in the battle off Samaar (read it, and be terrified-Karl told me he knew he could tread water for 4 days, because he did it) and the late husband of a friend and their 6 month old daughter, who died in a horrific car accident, and both of my uncles on my dad’s side are there.
Best,
Ted
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St. Paul is mentioned in the bible, but, nothing is written about Minneapolis.
