but for the people of alaska, one persistent vision was to become americans, a vision thwarted for 92 years by powerful commercial interests that ruled the territory from a distance and a federal government that seemed at best indifferent. in 1955, alaskans took a major step toward self-government when they wrote the constitution they hoped would help make the territory a state. this is the story of that constitution and how alaskans won the right to govern themselves. in retrospect, i think we did as good a job as could have been done, and i think that the constitution has fully stood the test of time. it was designed to be adaptable to the future, to be a lasting document like the u.s. constitution. well, it was a big gamble, except it was a gamble we had to take because we wouldn t get another opportunity. they came here because they were trying to create, literally, a new world based upon let s do it right this time. that was heard more times at the convention. we
The VA is blocking the identification of remains linked to a World War II plane crash in Alaska that killed a Fremont soldier and 15 others. A damaged national cemetery
The Battle of Attu, on one of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, is known by historians as the “Forgotten War” of World War II. A Derry Township man is making sure his great uncle, one of the 549 U.S. troops killed in that battle, isn’t forgotten. David W. Bates, a native of
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