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As a dog person through and through, in fact I'm convinced I was not a wolf but a dog in a previous life -a shout out must be done to the dogs (and the riders) if you please:
1. Togo! The Legend! The infant prodigy. You magnificent pooch. Born to lead, born to run. born to save that town of Nome, Alaska in the worst winter of that era. Big facts: Leonard Seppala and all 19 of your pack would have died on that ice without you. I cried so much at your bravery. Hope you get tons of treats and pets over that rainbow.
2. Blackie, Sally, Jimmy, Princess, Jack, Jet, Bear and Bob. This one is bittersweet. You started the relay bright and early and going against the rule of -40 you followed "Wild Bill" Shannon all the way and you succeeded even though it cost your pack four lives. Your are my heroes little furballs.
3. Bolto, you did your best in the very last stretch and in the end you sought no praise, to fame and no glory - that was all Gunner Kaasen. You got to the end in conditions that had already killed dogs along the relay. Good Boy!
4. The Relay Riders (Mushers) who could have died on the trail: Leonhard Seppala, Wild Bill Shannon, Edgar Kallands, Charlie Evans, George and Edgar Nollner, Curtis Welch, Titus Nickolai, Johnny Folger, Sam Joseph, Harry Pitka, Tommy Patsy, Myles Gonangnan, Vicktor Anagick, Henry Ivanoff, Dan Green, Charlie Olsen and Gunner Kaasen - such an amazing fete that saved lives.
Alright, in the words of "Wild Bill" Shannon": Hell Weltz, if people are dying ... let's get started.
I can't imagine what our 21st century pandemic would have done to the community of Nome, Alaska. The description of that Diphtheria disease sounded way to close to the past 3 years and that virus that set peoples lives back by about 3 years. And yet, without the resources we have to day - their death toll was actually only 5 in a span of 10 days. The sense of urgency and the work done by Governer Bone, Dr Welch, Emily Morgan and the Health Council of Nome could definitely teach our world a thing or two..
There were so many heroes, I have to single out the first relay team with the 300 000 units of the serum. Faced with this daunting task, some had just returned from a very long mail haul, heard they were needed to save the lives of children in the neighboring sister-town and they just went out, got their sleds ready and did it. Something about being brave in that time hits differently to our time. Maybe it's the overexposure of everything on all media platforms today but in the 1900s, facing all but certain death on the ice, these sledding teams did what was virtually impossible. For that and that alone, I will brave the cold Alaskan weather and come visit some tourist destinations dedicated to them.
Seriously though having just come out of a 3 year pandemic - when is earth going to stop trying to annihilate the 8 billion humans like we're parasites in the bloodstream? I mean it's already heating up like a fever on this surface. Sigh...will they be telling our story in the next 100 years and will it be as inspiring and unbelievable as this one? Or one big cautionary tale of dread, disappointment and warring ideologies?
Yeah if the immortality scientists could get a move on with the fountain of youth I'd be able to hang around until then.
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