three years later when the war was finally over, the people of unalaska, the native people of unalaska were allowed to go home to their community after being in these intern camps, but they were ransacked and burned. many of their villages on the island were destroyed, another dark spot in our country's history. remember, these were our citizens, our country. and the native people, if they weren't at home, many of them were fighting overseas in the pacific and in europe, like private george fox. so gertrude comes home from the internment camp. she's at unalaska now, and she marries another patriot named sam svarny, her husband. he was in the army and stationed in unalaska. another patriot in this story, sam served in world war ii and later served in vietnam. gertrude became an artist, a renowned artist in alaska. she's actually very famous for her work that she makes out of traditional materials, and she's in collections all over the world. and even though her childhood, mr. president, was marked by the wrongs inflicted on her family and her by her own country, she and her husband have