To: Political Junkie Too
“There must be other ways to recognize that achievement without nearly recreating it each year, without all the dangers that went with the original emergency.”
Agreed. I’m surprised that the medicines weren’t flown-in and air-dropped into Nome.
45 posted on
03/17/2019 1:32:29 PM PDT by
Carriage Hill
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To: carriage_hill
Because it was February 1925.
There were only three planes operating in Alaska at the time out of Fairbanks, and they were dismantled for the winter.
-PJ
47 posted on
03/17/2019 1:49:00 PM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
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