text: And yet another great, proud moment for us Alaskans to have quite literally 15% of the state's population show up.  This never gets old, as an Alaskan lifer myself that can still fondly remember doing the same in the 60's on my dad's shoulders.  As a contrarian cynical buddy once said, all politcs aside this is by far the best display of taxpayer money at work!  Simply the best of the best.