Well, we are attending a party about 50 miles from Duluth at the end of May and we are planning on driving up to Duluth just for a look around.
While this sort of behavior is disgusting, I doubt it is representative of the entire town. In fact, since there was a Color Guard, a Pledge and and the National Anthem, as well as a Tea Party, it would appear that there are a lot of patriots up North.
None of us are responsible for the irrational loons who have managed to infest our nation, everywhere. I would rather see a list of any businesses that are connected to this behavior, rather than damning an entire city or region.
>”While this sort of behavior is disgusting, I doubt it is representative of the entire town.”
Dont bet on it. A few years ago, the DoD (I think) gave Duluth the option of putting the battleship USS Des Moines in a Veterans Memorial Park. The proposal was SOUNDLY defeated because the city felt it “Glorified War”.
You talk about Patriots, and yes. There are some up here. A few. Far more that live in this area are at the other end of the spectrum, I’m afraid.
Enjoy your trip. I dont fault anybody for making that decision. On the other hand, I live here and I do NOT support the cities fiscally and socially liberal stance on everything. (One thing that really got me was days before the Tea Party, this paper came out with a plea for NO VIOLENCE FROM THE TEA PARTY MEMBERS.)
The liberals dont care what you think. Obama has already proven that. However, I vote with my money and I’ll not support any of them as much as I can.
I do envy you as I have driven the advertised Great Lakes loop, it is 1200 miles around the lakes from Sault Ste Marie, Michigan and back to the same city.
I thought I had read a spoof in the Duluth paper at the time. A woman said that the name of the connecting bridge between Duluth and Superior Wisconsin should be re-named. She said North Korean vessels were now coming up as far as that area. Now the connecting bridge is the Richard Bong Bridge, generally called the Bong Bridge. It was named for Richard Bong of Poplar, Wisconsin. Bong was arguably the greatest air ace of WW2. For he had 40 kills against the Japanese. This was one on one and each enemy could have killed him. The woman said the bridge should be renamed to avoid humiliation to ships from an Asiatic country.
Apart from that the railway museum, showing the last of the great steam engine dreadnoughts of the 1940's is something to view.
Anyway if you cross the Bong, you will think of a rural country boy and his incredible contribution to victory over a cruel foe.