One shot, one kill
That's what really matters to me
when I am shooting---
When I am hungry for red meat then cooking well is what really matters to me.
"maybe 8-12 years" could have been 10-15 years
I have memory categories of recent past, and distant past...and guess a lot about exactly when something happened.
The fellow, Jules, (really excellent helper ---when he ran out of tasks I had set him to, he would start cleaning the shop---without being asked)in the green shirt at the peak of the greenhouse was my helper for summers and holidays of 2 highschool years, 4 college years and then 15 months straight after college before he went to grad school. He also helped me butcher and package the deer off book and took freezer meat and jerky as he wanted them, One of those years We were butchering a doe and I came up to clean the weapon and put it back in it's case--then I looked outside, and saw a monster(12 point) buck in the yard and shot it also.
That year I filled all 5 tags. That was most likely somewhere between 4-8 years ago. We also smoked maybe 5 gallons of jerky, and 2 rear legs that winter. He took one and I hung the other in the sub-basement by the wood stove and we sliced off snacks and sandwich meat till it was used up.
He's now doing some really excellent work on phages as replacements for antibiotics at Iowa state.
meanwhile:
Killing Saddam and ending his regime was worth dying for.
Yeh BULLSHIT
Nothing is worth dying for
Nothing!
(except maybe the survival of your children)
All my life, I've been hearing/reading/etc... really stupid shit like:
"I don't agree with what you're saying, but I would die defending your right to say it."
Bullshit---words are cheap
The thing is that those who have died never say such stupid bullshit.
They are mute!
Alternately:
What is worth killing for?
What justifies murder?
What justifies inciting, or ordering, others to commit murder?
What justifies killing soldiers or civilians for the politics/policies of their leaders?
Would you like to die for Obama?
Would you like to kill someone else for Obama?