Your Lighthouse Or Mine?

If anyone can explain to me why our government hasn't funded a massive lighthouse-building campaign, I'd like to know. To this very day, ships continue to wreck because of our ill-lighted beaches, shorelines, riverfronts, and lakes. When is enough enough? Will your pleasurecraft, oil tanker, or schooner be next?

Here, the Cape Hatteras lighthouse is flanked by a lovely full moon. To be perfectly honest, it looks much larger on television.

-b