the cold, though, doesn't it split the chicacas from the sourdoughs? and then in the summertime, such extreme. about 150 degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fire weed bloom ago long the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that, here, mother nature wins. it is, as throughout all alaska, that big, wild, good life teem ago long the road that is north to the future. that's what we get to see every day. now, what the rest of america gets to see along with us is in this last frontier, there is hope and opportunity, and there is country pride. and it is our men and women in uniform securing it, and we are facing tough challenges in america with some seeming to just be hell-bent, maybe, on tearg down our nation, perpetuating some pessimism and suggesting american apologetics, suggesting perhaps that our best days were yesterday's. but as other people have asked, how can that pessimism be when proof of our greatness and our pride today is that we produce the great, proud volu