So today is Columbus Day! Hardly the day of celebration it was years ago. Apparently there are detractors who can make a case that he was a poor navigator who mistakenly led the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria to the shores of the New World. It seems the Vikings set foot on the same shores much earlier but left to roam the seas rather than explore the New World. Give Christopher his due - he stayed awhile! Today there will be the obligatory parade by Italian-Americans, the obligatory Columbus Day sales and the obligatory bank holidays. And some of us will oblige by flying the American flag as a means of saluting Christopher Columbus, that adventurous Italian who made it possible for me to be born to two other adventurous Italians in The United States of America.
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