Sen. Dan Sullivan said that park staff caused a flag's removal from a construction vehicle. But the park called that account 'false' a day later.
Denali National Park and Preserve staff found themselves at the center of a dispute over the American flag on Memorial Day, after Alaska’s junior U.S. senator claimed that they had asked a construction crew in the park to remove a flag from a vehicle.
But park officials said that account of the incident was “false,” in a Sunday response on Facebook that had received more than 700 comments by Monday afternoon.
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