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Thanksgiving, A Time to Remember and Give Thanks to BALTO and TOGO

   What is a miracle?  When there is something Man cannot do, but does....that difference is a miracle. The miracle this Blog will discuss is the Serum Run in Alaska in 1925. NOME "Nome lies just two degrees south of the  Arctic Circle , ... it was still the largest town in the northern half of Alaska in 1925 with 455  Alaska Native  and 975 settlers of European descent... the  port  on the southern shore of the  Seward Peninsula  of the  Bering Sea  was icebound and inaccessible by  steamship , Winter supplies were sent by  train  from the icefree  port of  Seward  to  Nenana , and then was transported the 674 miles (1,085 km) from Nenana to Nome by  dog sled , which normally took 25 days." THE EPIDEMIC Nome only had one doctor, a Dr. Welch. In 1918, half the Native Americans around Nome had been wiped out by the Great Influenza epidemic of 1918. Now,  Native American children were becoming ill with diphtheria. Welch used up all his diphtheria vaccine treating the Native Ame