Bernard "Ben" Guild (1924–2003), was an authority on Alaska mushrooms and a supporter of the founding of Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve. Every grave on the lands and in those oceans are a tomb to an idea. Some wrong, some right, but mostly political. But the graves are never wrong - they are monuments to the heroic men who sleep there. For who has the right to say that any man who has borne the brunt of the battle and given up his life in doing so, was wrong? — Bernard Guild on May 20, 2002