The Battle for Eklutna Glacier had been raging for years.  There was no end in sight.  The Army wanted the glacier and surrounding area for training purposes but the state division of parks and thousands of recreationists were adamantly opposed.  Tennyson described how the embattled and outnumbered U.S. Army must have felt in his 1854 poem about the Crimean War, “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” “Cannon in … Continue reading Charge of the Light Brigade: Part IV – A truce leads to a strategic withdrawal