“It just fills in the picture of who he was, and why he was who he was,” Sharon Marks Haney Wright said of reading the letters penned by her father in 1944 and 1945.
The State of Alaska is preparing to present its argument to the Alaska Supreme Court to reverse an April ruling by the Alaska Superior Court that found the correspondence study program unconstitutional.
This change does not alter how people in the affected areas should reach out for emergency services, with 911 still being the way to get in touch with emergency dispatch.
“I grew up seeing unleveled houses. It was just something very normal in my life,” said Robby Strunk, a research technician at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Alaska campus who is from Quinhagak, Alaska, a village on the Bering Sea coast.