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Dad's special gift

Mike ZlotnickiRaleigh News & Observer

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

The first fish I ever "caught" was tossed to me by my dad at a seafood shop in Baltimore. The first hunt I ever went on I watched Dad outrun an English setter somewhere west of Omaha to retrieve a ringneck pheasant he had shot. Once he capsized a canoe filled with my fishing tackle, and we laughed about it for years. You see, my father wasn't God's own outdoorsman. He was a career Air Force officer, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps during World War II who worried more about his voc ...

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