Outstanding!

Terry and Cletis, you both gave of yourselves for others day after day after day. Well played men! And blessings to you both for serving those who serve all of us!
Get some rest. You both aren't as young as you once were.

Blessings!
Mark

Very nice to see!

To All of you guys that helped make this possible I can't Thank yall enough. These guys are all gonna join us on trapperman and they are definitely going to put your donations to use. I wish you all could have been here to see how excited they were about every aspect of trapping. That is from reading sign setting the traps for the animals catching them and the proper way to skin them and the use of different glands the hides and other things.
Your caps and shirts will be on the way to yall soon. Thank you for everything you guys donated.
This was and amazing and very successful event. I'm looking forward to next year's event. It's a heck of a deal to see a 65 year old man catch his first mink.
I can't thank my old trapping buddy Cletis Richards enough for taking time to help me with this event.
THANK ALL OF YOU
GOD BLESS YOU AND
GOD BLESS AMERICA.

I am one of the veterans who participated in this trapping event. First thing, I want to personally thank everyone who donated equipment, money and to our two teachers (more like mentors). I did 20 years in the Marines as a trigger puller, and was wounded two months before my retirement. I got tore-up pretty bad. The only thing that keeps me alive is hunting and fishing, just being in the outdoors. Recently I was thinking back to the days I trapped in high school and started looking at trapping gear. I really wanted to get back into it, but to get the basic gear was out of my price range. So I thought of how I could save up and get it piece by piece. I was about to order a couple of traps when my phone rang. I was asked if I wanted to go to a trapping clinic. I said no as I had no gear and was told I would be provided gear. I said YES!

I had a solid foundation in trapping but the instruction I received was lightyears ahead of what I knew. It was enough to get the gears moving and I'm here to say I was like a little kid in a candy shop! I paid attention, asked questions and got my hands dirty. I came home smelling like mink, dirty, and worn out. I couldn't have asked for a better time. To some it might be a dollar or two, a trap, or a bottle of lure, but it gives a veteran a new breath of fresh air, it saves lives. It changed my life.

Thanks to my great mentors, land owners and the gracious donors. I now have a new outlook on life, and a new career. I already have two farms and a hunting lease lined up. I actually set traps this morning to remove coons from my neighbor's back 40. I have a purpose, a new career, and looking forward to spending more time in the outdoors.

I can't thank all of you enough, I don't know how to express in words of how much of a life changer this is for me. Thank you.

Mike Cheramie
0369
GySgt Retired

Terry happy everything turned out great. Cletis and you went beyond the call of duty. Thanks for the time and effort to make someone's life special or better.

What y'all did for these heroes was wonderful!

Thanks to all of you who donated to the event. It was a great pleasure and privilege to help with this event. What a great time I had meeting these great men who served our country, they have literally given of themselves to SERVE. May GOD continue to bless and keep these fine examples of American men.

Cletis