Alaska Native veterans give input for national Native American memorial

George Bennett Sr. isn’t ashamed to be Alaska Native or a U.S. veteran. Nearly 50 years after he left Vietnam, he’s proud to be both; it’s who he is. It hasn’t always been that way though — he said it took him about 30 years to find a bit of personal peace.
Wearing a Vietnam War veteran baseball cap, Bennett unofficially lead a workshop at the Alaska Federation of Native (AFN) convention at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks. He and about a dozen other Alaska Native ve