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03-09-2001, 04:18 PM
Rhino
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Youth Gets His Hunting Trip, Despite Make A Wish
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Young Hunters' Wishes Can Come True, After All
Monday, January 22, 2001
By Robert Shaffer
www.foxnews.com/national/...g_wish.sml (http://www.foxnews.com/national/...g_wish.sml)
YREKA, Calif. - When Zachary Martin, a 16-year-old boy diagnosed with bone cancer, made his wish, it almost didn't come true.
"I wanted to go on a hunt," he said, and asked the Make-a-Wish foundation for just that. "But I asked them to go to a couple of places like Alaska or something, but they said they couldn't grant any hunts."
Make-a-Wish, a Phoenix-based group that has answered the dreams of 3,000 children with life-threatening illnesses since 1980, banned hunting and shooting trips beginning Jan. 1.
Safety of the children was the reason, said Make-a-Wish spokesman Jim Maggio. The group has not banned fishing.
"When you take into consideration the fact that the child may have been weakened by the effects of that life-threatening illness, and all the treatment protocols and medications that may accompany that --- it's simply too great a risk to the safety of that child than we're willing to assume," he said.
But Zachary's story should have a happy ending, thanks to a rock star and an organization that fills wishes that Make-a-Wish will not. In July, Zachary will bow hunt zebra and other game with rock star Ted Nugent in South Africa..........
Click the link for the rest of the story.
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magnum mom
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(2/14/01 9:07:55 pm)
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Rhino, Sure was good to hear a story with a happy ending. Ted Nugent is one heck of a nice guy. That little boy sure deserves this trip i am saving a place in my prayers and heart for Zachery. Thanks Rhino.
TheOriginalJester
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(2/14/01 9:12:47 pm)
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Ted has a way about him that just frost the gun haters!
WarLady1
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(2/14/01 9:18:19 pm)
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Jester, it's called facts.. and a whole lot of heart. He's cute too.
Yukon1
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(2/14/01 11:01:28 pm)
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Unfortunately the boy probably will not survive through to July. Bone cancer is perhaps the most painful and dibilitating of all cancers.
God willing I sincerily hope the boy gets his wish and perhaps even a cure.
Father Yukon
AtomicLibSmasher
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(2/14/01 11:06:08 pm)
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Yuckie.. maybe this gun thing is a gift from God.... whuttaya think?
``I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal" - Slick Clinton
Yukon1
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(2/15/01 12:04:41 am)
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ALS,
The people who run and contribute to the Childrens Wish Foundation are truely God's helpers. We have the same foundation in Canada and they do wonderful things for children who are suffering so terribly.
My heart breaks at the thought of having a child of mine in the same position as the 16 year old. His parents too must be heart broken beyond all comprehension. If a big game hunt is the boy's dream vacation I surely do hope and pray that his wish does come true.
The people who help these unfortunate children, or terminally ill adults, are truly good people.
I have the utmost respect for them and contribute whenever I can to their cause. I only wish I had was emotionally stronger so that I could do more.
Father Yukon
Edited by: Yukon1 at: 2/15/01 12:07:40 am
DemStalker
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(2/15/01 12:15:57 am)
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The animal rights wackos hate Ted and have threatened to kill his own kids on the way to school if he doesn't stop his promotion of hunting.
Sounds compassionate to me.
Ted does alot of charity work with kids and his Web site is a hoot.
Stranglehold
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(2/20/01 11:02:13 am)
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Dem,
Do you know of any story in print where any Animal Rights Group or wackjob individual aspiring to be same has threatened anyone's children for their beliefs?
I for one would work dirt cheap as a Bodyguard for Ted Nugent or his family any day of the week, on a permanent or semi-permanent basis as a matter of principle even though I don't think I would enjoy Michigan very much at all.
He is more than capable of Defending himself and his Family, but he hunts and he tours at times.
I think it is utterly despicable and a sure sign of psychosis to state a desire to hurt a human being for their love of hunting, wearing leather, fur or other animal products and as far as I'm concerned, they are the ones that need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth.
Just like the animal loving pinheads who like to throw red pain on women who wear fur.
My Wife does not own a fur coat, but if she did and one of these fruitbats tossed paint on her, I would split their nuts off the side of their face. Or ovaries, as the case might be.
And just to think, the Gun Owners and Hunters are the extremists? I don't go around tossing paint on people and all this other lunacy.
The inmates are running the Asylum.
"Sometimes you wanna get higher, sometimes you gotta start low, some people think they're gonna die someday...I got news, you never got to go."
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Youth Gets His Hunting Trip, Despite Make A Wish
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Young Hunters' Wishes Can Come True, After All
Monday, January 22, 2001
By Robert Shaffer
www.foxnews.com/national/...g_wish.sml (http://www.foxnews.com/national/...g_wish.sml)
YREKA, Calif. - When Zachary Martin, a 16-year-old boy diagnosed with bone cancer, made his wish, it almost didn't come true.
"I wanted to go on a hunt," he said, and asked the Make-a-Wish foundation for just that. "But I asked them to go to a couple of places like Alaska or something, but they said they couldn't grant any hunts."
Make-a-Wish, a Phoenix-based group that has answered the dreams of 3,000 children with life-threatening illnesses since 1980, banned hunting and shooting trips beginning Jan. 1.
Safety of the children was the reason, said Make-a-Wish spokesman Jim Maggio. The group has not banned fishing.
"When you take into consideration the fact that the child may have been weakened by the effects of that life-threatening illness, and all the treatment protocols and medications that may accompany that --- it's simply too great a risk to the safety of that child than we're willing to assume," he said.
But Zachary's story should have a happy ending, thanks to a rock star and an organization that fills wishes that Make-a-Wish will not. In July, Zachary will bow hunt zebra and other game with rock star Ted Nugent in South Africa..........
Click the link for the rest of the story.
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"We have every right to dream heroic dreams." - Ronald Reagan
http://www.siscom.net/~simdad
magnum mom
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(2/14/01 9:07:55 pm)
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Rhino, Sure was good to hear a story with a happy ending. Ted Nugent is one heck of a nice guy. That little boy sure deserves this trip i am saving a place in my prayers and heart for Zachery. Thanks Rhino.
TheOriginalJester
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(2/14/01 9:12:47 pm)
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Ted has a way about him that just frost the gun haters!
WarLady1
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(2/14/01 9:18:19 pm)
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Jester, it's called facts.. and a whole lot of heart. He's cute too.
Yukon1
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(2/14/01 11:01:28 pm)
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Unfortunately the boy probably will not survive through to July. Bone cancer is perhaps the most painful and dibilitating of all cancers.
God willing I sincerily hope the boy gets his wish and perhaps even a cure.
Father Yukon
AtomicLibSmasher
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(2/14/01 11:06:08 pm)
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Yuckie.. maybe this gun thing is a gift from God.... whuttaya think?
``I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal" - Slick Clinton
Yukon1
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(2/15/01 12:04:41 am)
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ALS,
The people who run and contribute to the Childrens Wish Foundation are truely God's helpers. We have the same foundation in Canada and they do wonderful things for children who are suffering so terribly.
My heart breaks at the thought of having a child of mine in the same position as the 16 year old. His parents too must be heart broken beyond all comprehension. If a big game hunt is the boy's dream vacation I surely do hope and pray that his wish does come true.
The people who help these unfortunate children, or terminally ill adults, are truly good people.
I have the utmost respect for them and contribute whenever I can to their cause. I only wish I had was emotionally stronger so that I could do more.
Father Yukon
Edited by: Yukon1 at: 2/15/01 12:07:40 am
DemStalker
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(2/15/01 12:15:57 am)
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The animal rights wackos hate Ted and have threatened to kill his own kids on the way to school if he doesn't stop his promotion of hunting.
Sounds compassionate to me.
Ted does alot of charity work with kids and his Web site is a hoot.
Stranglehold
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(2/20/01 11:02:13 am)
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Dem,
Do you know of any story in print where any Animal Rights Group or wackjob individual aspiring to be same has threatened anyone's children for their beliefs?
I for one would work dirt cheap as a Bodyguard for Ted Nugent or his family any day of the week, on a permanent or semi-permanent basis as a matter of principle even though I don't think I would enjoy Michigan very much at all.
He is more than capable of Defending himself and his Family, but he hunts and he tours at times.
I think it is utterly despicable and a sure sign of psychosis to state a desire to hurt a human being for their love of hunting, wearing leather, fur or other animal products and as far as I'm concerned, they are the ones that need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth.
Just like the animal loving pinheads who like to throw red pain on women who wear fur.
My Wife does not own a fur coat, but if she did and one of these fruitbats tossed paint on her, I would split their nuts off the side of their face. Or ovaries, as the case might be.
And just to think, the Gun Owners and Hunters are the extremists? I don't go around tossing paint on people and all this other lunacy.
The inmates are running the Asylum.
"Sometimes you wanna get higher, sometimes you gotta start low, some people think they're gonna die someday...I got news, you never got to go."