Officers at Alaska’s famed Denali National Park are in sizzling water after allegedly telling design crews at the park not to fly the American flag.
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, penned a letter to Countrywide Park Provider Director Charles Sams demanding an rationalization for the steps of officials at Denali National Park, pointing out that the demand from customers for the building crew to clear away the flag was created on the “eve of Memorial Working day weekend.”
Information of the alleged incident appears to have originated in a report by the Alaska Watchman, a area conservative publication that cited an anonymous development worker at the park. Fox News Digital has been unable to independently verify the aspects of the report.
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A check out of Denali, formerly recognised as Mount McKinley, on Sept. 1, 2015, in Denali National Park, Alaska. (Lance King/Getty Visuals)
In his letter, Sullivan spelled out that a single of the design motor vehicles included in the project experienced a 3 x 5 foot American flag affixed to it, but for “reasons that remain unclear, anyone at the Nationwide Park Assistance (NPS) induced the development crew to eliminate the American flag.”
“This is an outrage – especially in the lead-up to our most solemn countrywide getaway, Memorial Working day, a time when People arrive alongside one another to honor those that gave their life in assistance to our country, even though donning our country’s flag,” Sullivan wrote. “The American flag, specially on Memorial Day weekend, really should be celebrated, not censored by federal authorities staff members.”
The Alaska senator mentioned that he could locate no regulations that would prohibit the traveling of American flags on public land, arguing that this sort of a regulation would be odd given that the intent of national parks is for “the satisfaction of American citizens.”
Sen. Dan Sullivan (Brandon Bell-Pool/Getty Images)
Sullivan concluded by demanding that Sams investigate the incident and take measures to “assure an incident like this does not come about yet again in American countrywide parks.”
The landscape on Sept. 17, 2019, in the vicinity of Denali, Alaska. (Joe Raedle/Getty Photographs)
The incident also sparked an apparent protest from Alaska people, who have organized a “patriotic convoy with flags” from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Denali Countrywide Park on Sunday. The protest, which was arranged on Facebook, experienced 23 confirmed members and around 100 fascinated as of Sunday early morning.
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The Countrywide Park Service and Denali Countrywide Park did not instantly reply to a Fox News Electronic ask for for comment.
