I think that there are enough new people here for me to tell the story again. They need to know just what kind of people they have fell in with.
My daughter Kim, then 21, was lying in a nursing home in 2002 in a persistent vegetative state. With severe head injury from a hit and run (she was a pedestrian), she was given no hope of living at first. Then she was to always be comatose. Then in a persistent vegetative state. She was never to be able to walk, or talk, or eat.
I had just received my Active Duty from the first Custom Shop run. Since she had shared my knife and gun interests since she was adopted at age four, I took the knife with me for my daily sojourn at the nursing home. I held it in front of her eyes staring off into space somewhere and told her I was putting it away for her for when she could once again hunt with me. I later told about this on this forum. About two weeks later, a package showed up with a new AD, along with a note from Jerry and Jennifer that they wanted to replace the knife I had given to Kim.
Fast forward a few years, when I took Kim to her first Blade Show. At the second ever Hog induction ceremony, Jerry inducted Kim, then wheelchair bound, as the second ever Hoggette, complete with tee shirt and a Steel Heart Ergo with a message on the blade, "BUSSE COMBAT 'GUTS' AWARD Presented to our hero Kimberley". They made a big deal over her, and anyone who knows Kim knows that she has no problem at all with being the center of attention. After the show a sheath comes in the mail from Okuden for her Steel Heart. Then a pristine Busse three finger knife from an anonomous donor.
Her Active Duty, Steel Heart, and three-finger at present sit in a display case in our den, along with her first knife (a small Ek hunter which I gave her for our first hunt when she was five) and a Branton/Brend which Bobby Branton gave her. Unfortunately, the independent living apartments where she now resides prohibits knives so they must remain here (alhough I would not bet against her having one or two tucked away).
She took her Active Duty with her on our first post-incident deer hunt, three years ago. She is quite accurate inside 50 yards with her .243, but has had no opportunities yet.
My daughter Kim, then 21, was lying in a nursing home in 2002 in a persistent vegetative state. With severe head injury from a hit and run (she was a pedestrian), she was given no hope of living at first. Then she was to always be comatose. Then in a persistent vegetative state. She was never to be able to walk, or talk, or eat.
I had just received my Active Duty from the first Custom Shop run. Since she had shared my knife and gun interests since she was adopted at age four, I took the knife with me for my daily sojourn at the nursing home. I held it in front of her eyes staring off into space somewhere and told her I was putting it away for her for when she could once again hunt with me. I later told about this on this forum. About two weeks later, a package showed up with a new AD, along with a note from Jerry and Jennifer that they wanted to replace the knife I had given to Kim.
Fast forward a few years, when I took Kim to her first Blade Show. At the second ever Hog induction ceremony, Jerry inducted Kim, then wheelchair bound, as the second ever Hoggette, complete with tee shirt and a Steel Heart Ergo with a message on the blade, "BUSSE COMBAT 'GUTS' AWARD Presented to our hero Kimberley". They made a big deal over her, and anyone who knows Kim knows that she has no problem at all with being the center of attention. After the show a sheath comes in the mail from Okuden for her Steel Heart. Then a pristine Busse three finger knife from an anonomous donor.
Her Active Duty, Steel Heart, and three-finger at present sit in a display case in our den, along with her first knife (a small Ek hunter which I gave her for our first hunt when she was five) and a Branton/Brend which Bobby Branton gave her. Unfortunately, the independent living apartments where she now resides prohibits knives so they must remain here (alhough I would not bet against her having one or two tucked away).
She took her Active Duty with her on our first post-incident deer hunt, three years ago. She is quite accurate inside 50 yards with her .243, but has had no opportunities yet.
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