Franklin teen unfazed by note condemning lion hunt

[Jenoch]

126. Several years ago there was a 17 year old boy

from a nearby town to me who wished to go on a Kodiak bear hunt for his Make A Wish wish. He went on that hunting trip, he did not get a brown bear and Make A Wish stopped all hunting trips. A couple years after that, some local hunting organizations funded another trip to Kodiak, but I don't remember if he got a brown bear. Alas, the young man died a couple of years later, but not before getting his degree in wildlife management.

http://www.startribune.com/obituaries/11598296.html

Downthread I wrote of my qualms about hunting predators. I have rethought my position. The hunt your son has won is to harvest just one of two cats.

I wish you, your son, and your family good luck on the hunting trip, and good luck on the prognosis for your son's illness. I lost three of four grandparents to cancer. They were all old when they died, your son deserves much better. God bless.

I just looked up where your town is located. It turns out you are just a little west of an area of Nebraska where we have some good family friends. They farm in the Deshler, Hebron, and Byron areas. They farm on both dry ground and irrigated.

One more edit. My father's best man at my parent's wedding was a long time resident of Cozad, Nebraska. I think he's been gone for over a decade. His wife was wacked out, but that's another story.