Photo archive for May 27, 2008
Coast Guard rescue swimmer O'Brien Starr-Hollow, front, and his team swim in the Kodiak harbor as part of the Norm Holm Memorial Survival Suit Race on May 24, 2008, during the 50th anniversary of the Crab Festival, once called the Kodiak King Crab Festival.
A mama moose and two babies were caught on camera taking a drink in a wading pool inside of Birchwood Homes.
I was shopping for a Mother's Day gift with my five sons, until one of them spotted the Alvin & The Chipmunks CD, and they all had to sample it. They sat there for 20 minutes!
Mount McKinley, showing Cassin Ridge from the 15,000-foot level to the summit.
A flag waves in the light breeze as Memorial Day services are conducted Monday afternoon, May 26, 2008, at Northern Lights Cemetery.
Vietnam Army veteran Phillip “Little Dog” Rodgers, right, salutes members of the Fort Wainwright Honor Guard at the conclusion of Memorial Day services Monday afternoon, May 26, 2008, at in the Golden Heart Park.
Fred Knutson poses in the back of his box truck loaded with his pull-behind trailer and political fodder Thursday morning, May 22, 2008. Knutson, who walks almost daily and has walked to both Haines and Anchorage from Fairbanks, estimates that by August he will have walked a distance equal to the circumference of the earth. He is our Spotlight for the week.
Vietnam veteran Joe Fields comforts his wife Cindy as they pay tribute to her sister, Karen Koudelka, after Memorial Day services Monday afternoon, May 26, 2008, at Northern Lights Cemetery. Later they visited the grave of Cindy’s parents, World War II U.S. Army Air Corps Staff Sgt James Haynes and Betty Haynes.
Clinical Psychologist Brenna Chirby poses for a photo in Bethesda, Md., Thursday, May 22, 2008. Thousands of private counselors are offering free services to troops returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health problems - jumping in to help a military that doesn't have enough therapists. "It's only an hour of your time," said Chirby, who counsels the family member of a someone deployed multiple tines. "How can you not give that to these men and women that ... are going oversees and fighting for us."
Fred Knutson shows off the worn soles of a pair of tennis shoes he says have about 4,000 miles on them Thursday morning, May 22, 2008. Knutson, who walks almost daily and has walked to both Haines and Anchorage from Fairbanks, estimates that by August he will have walked a distance equal to the circumference of the earth. He is our Spotlight for the week.
