Help! Would someone please help me. I’m confused.

The front page of The Bulletin on Dec. 1 had a picture of a decorated tree. The headline above the picture was “O Tannenbaum.” Under the picture, the caption called it a holiday tree. The question is, what is it? A Christmas tree or a holiday tree? The English version of the song “O Tannenbaum” starts all four verses with “O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,” not “O holiday tree, O holiday tree.”

Growing up in Bend in the 1950s, the tree was at Oregon Avenue and Wall Street and was always called a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree. I ask The Bulletin: How can you have it both ways? But if you need to be politically correct, that is really being politically correct!

Jerry Sherman

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