"Tom Watson" wrote in message
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To state that many of us countrified folk hunt and fish is to state
the obvious. To imply or infer that we must therefore be less
intelligent or are more lacking in refinement than our metropolitan
brethren is to misstate and misunderstand.

I would refer you back to Jefferson's ideal of the American. I would
ask you to hearken to the message of Teddy Roosevelt and his appeal to
"The Active Life".

Those who eschew hunting and fishing are not my enemy. Those who
insist that their values are superior to and must supersede the values
of those who do not share their view, to an exclusionary level, are
everyone's enemy.



Regards, Tom

Go get 'em Tom.

Reminds me of a Wall Street Journal TV commercial they were running oh, say,
3-4 years ago about the orphaned twins separated and adopted, one by a
family who hunted & fished, read Field & Stream, etc. The other was adopted
by a family who taught him to read what else? The Wall Street Journal, and
when they grew up he was a great financial success, while his brother still
lived @ home with his parents, still reading fishing magazines.

The whole concept really burned my A**, and I e-mailed them and let them
know it. Don't know if it made any impression or not, but helped MY blood
pressure!LOL
Nahmie