[FireTrack]

"I have been thinking about this situation. This is an odd family, very odd."

Mark, Take a good look at the picture of this family and tell me it ain't so that in America today, one is called odd for being strong in the face of adversity, for standing up for what you believe, for not following the crowd and for treasuring your family!

One thing that really stood out to me in the interview was the statement; "Somehow we thought Alaska would be some old wooden hotels and dirt roads. Our vision was trappers and people living an old-fashioned type of real life"

I guess I see people who want more out of life than keeping up with the Jones, soccer gaming, watching TV, and commuting 2 hours a day to a job working 9 to 5 surrounded by people they don't care about and that don't care about them.

Are you sure it's not us "normal" people who are the odd ones?

I hope they at least do a mini-series about this family!

[logic101.net]

My thought about them being odd still stands. I am not saying there is anything wrong about what they are doing, and never have. In many ways I admire them. I'd love to live out in the bush back home (yes, I am a displaced Alaskan). However, some of these kids are adults and at an age where they would under normal conditions be looking for husbands and wives, which will be difficult to find there.

I fully support their right to live in the bush, and do view the Park Service's action that cut off access to their property as criminal.

Yet, they are an odd family.

Mark A Sity
http://www.logic101.net/