One Hell Of A Layover…
How fitting as I finish the last post of my first trip to Anchorage on the first day of my second trip…. I left Kodiak the next morning with contentment and excited to one day return, for there are still things left to be done there. As I sat in the airport I wondered where […]
Mission of Honor
I started writing this blog a few years ago with the grand vision and hope of going to the Aleutian Islands one day to pay a tribute to my grandfather for his service during the second world war. And on this Memorial week, as we remember and honor those who sacrificed themselves for our who […]
Report From The Aleutians (1942)
One of the first things I ordered when I started researching the war in Alaska was this 42 minute video called Report Form The Aleutians. The video looks at the first part of the Aleutian Campaign and was made in 1942 by the U.S. government so as you can imagine, it tells a somewhat censored […]
Planes, Boats & Automobiles
Many would say that I have been around, meaning, lived a lot of different places. I guess it depends what your definition of ‘a lot’ is. I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a city of 600,000 in the center of Canada (above North Dakota and yes, it is C-O-L-D in the winter). In my late […]
War Is REAL And Never Insignificant
It’s true, there was actually a war fought right here on North American soil . The Japanese did bomb the continent. Lives were lost, many lives were lost, maybe not as many as in Germany but tell that to the family of a loved on who was fighting in Alaska in WW2. War is war. […]