Kind of a somber Turkey Day in some ways, but nice meal with boys and a couple of friends here in the city of lakes. But there are so many people suffering, and the yahoos get all the press and attention in their efforts to promote the "I got mine, you get yours" motif. Makes it hard to gloat over abundance.
And the narrative never changes -- a 19th century painting by Jean Louis Gerome Ferris (1863-1930) shows the begging Indians taking bounty from the well-dressed colonists, when, in reality, it was quite the other way around.
