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By Dan Joling | AP Alaska’s congressional delegation and Gov. Sean Parnell issued a joint statement saying they will stand together to resist attempts to close or shrink Alaska bases.
See more images and read more at the Naval History and Heritage Command website.
On Memorial Day, May 30, 2011 the American Legion Southeast District, Post 12 hosted memorial services at Haines and Klukwan. Read more->  rescuing a survivor from the water alongside the sunken USS West Virginia -- U.S. Navy photo The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy’s battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire’s southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant. Read and see more images at the Naval Heritage and History website.
SEARHC Press Release JUNEAU — The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) congratulates the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Alaska VA Healthcare System on the grand opening this week of the new Veterans Affairs Outreach Clinic located on the first floor of the Juneau Federal Building. |
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There are some things you just don’t mess with. And Veterans Day is one of them. Veterans Day originally was known as Armistice Day and marked the end of World War I at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918 – 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month. Congress designated that date as Armistice Day in 1926, and it became a national holiday in 1938. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed a bill designating Nov. 11 as Veterans Day. 
