South Canol Rest Area looks like a normal roadside rest area, but on the Alaska Highway you know better than to expect normal. In this rest area you park among a collection of incredibly old, very rusty, and exceedingly cool abandoned cars and trucks. Driving north through Yukon Territory, between Teslin and Whitehorse, you cross …
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Awards, Celebrations and Giving a Damn
Awards or commendations—interviewer Brown asked Chester whether he and the other soldiers received any. “You gotta be kidding. That war with them Japs over there, and with the Germans coming up.” Nobody paid any attention to roadbuilders in Canada. “We were the peons playing in the mud.” Bit and Brace Brain Surgery–More from Chester’s Memory …
Irony and History
No irony accompanied the fact that in early 1942, the Aleutians offered the marauding Japanese a back door to America. America’s leaders decided she needed a road to Alaska to defend it, and some of them realized the road wouldn’t do a lot of good if convoys had to dedicate the bulk of their …