Great story, Rockdoc! I guess we've all been kicked a few times by guns and the rest of life; important thing is to get right back on the pony.... I had a couple of brushes with game wardens in my youth, and they acted responsibly--more interested in building law abiding hunters than in enforcing "the letter of the law." More interested in gaining a kid's respect than getting a kid in trouble.
We only now are beginning to recognize that most of the wounds of war don't even show on the outside. NOBODY talked about those things when I was a kid. Almost all my adult neighbors had served in the Pacific, but you would never have known it to talk to them. My uncle spend four years in a Japanese prison camp, but the only time I ever saw any sign of it was one time when he was helping us run fence and he took off his shirt....
