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Jason Simpson

21:41 - 22:01

“Earl and his people have been doing great things to keep it up and to fix part of it up and make it safe and make it more presentable. Uh, but the problem is still holds down is that nobody has taken or has ownership of the memorial.”
Speaker
Jason Simpson
Community
Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
September 14, 2026

From the transcript

So the, um, the other question I had with, um, the piece is I, I know we said that you guys would submit it and then we would control the money afterwards, but there again, we're a commission. It'd be kind of hard for us to control, you know, the— I don't know if you were here already when we did, but we had a couple months back, we sent our recommendation to the mayor for the way forward for the 11th Air Force Memorial. I mean, it's sitting over on the back side of Merrill Field. Um, Earl and his people have been doing great things to keep it up and to fix part of it up and make it safe and make it more presentable. Uh, but the problem is still holds down is that nobody has taken or has ownership of the memorial.