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Letters: Why must we glorify killing things?

Wow! Not one but two heartwarming stories in the Sept. 23 issue about fathers and sons bonding by killing things — an alligator in one case and a tiger shark in the other. And we got to see pictures of the corpses, too. Inspirational.

Phil Dematteis

Columbia

This story was originally published October 7, 2015 at 5:43 PM with the headline "Letters: Why must we glorify killing things?."

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