Agony of the Aleutians: The forgotten internment

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - I never had the privilege of visiting the Aleutians while I was stationed at Ft. Wainwright and in the years I spent in Alaska after my discharge from the Army. It was about 20 years in all. I love Interior Alaska. One September while I was a graduate student at UAF, the director of my program won a resident lottery ticket to drive the Denali Park road from the visitor center to Kantishna. She couldn't go, so she gave her ticket to her students. Six of us took a university van. It was a beautiful, all-day trip. We drove through temperate forest, taiga and tundra. We saw the many colors of fall in each habitat and encountered a lot of wildlife. It was an incredible once-in-a-lifetime experience.

SPC Jill Drushal, RN, MA - Adak is a Neat Place, We Joked about the Eagles Outnumbering the People *NOT QUITE* but we had a lot. Learned I liked Caribou/Reindeer Meat there. Fishing was Great except when the Eagles stole Your Catch. Lots of Left Over Military Crap from WWII Laying Around, Unfortunately some was Anti Personnel and Ordnance.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - It sounds great. I fished all over the Interior and Southcentral. . . Now, my son and his family live in Eagle River. His wife is Inupiaq, born & raised in Fairbanks. Her mother is from the Native Village of Wales on the tip of the Seward Peninsula. My third Native granddaughter was just born last month.