Opinion

Hospice care focuses on comfort and quality of life during the last months of life. Hospice care helps people live comfortably and with a sense of normalcy, regardless of a terminal illness. It is not intended to prolong someone’s life, rather to help people live the fullest life possible while maintaining comfort and dignity.

My name is Allan Dragseth and I am a 1957 graduate of the NWSA. I am writing this in rebuttal to the article by John Hoffman in the November 17th Crookston Times from UMC concerning the “racist murals” in Kiehle Auditorium. The “Cancel Culture” is live and well at UMC. By this I mean the movement that has become popular recently where if you don’t like what someone once did or said, you tear down their statue or remove their name. Mr Hoffman is using a form of the Critical Race Theory where by you try to shame the white European race for what our ancestors supposedly did many years ago.

Most Americans understand from a young age the fairness of one person, one vote. It’s one of the foundational principles of American democracy, so we learn it at school, and we hear it at home.

May I share some reflections on a special person on a day of national celebration? Everyone has special memories that cement historical occurrences in their personal consciousness, whether it be the assassinations of the Kennedys or Martin Luther King, or the Jihadist assaults of 911. Mine relate directly to this day’s events and the historical circumstances that preceded it and proceeded from it.

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