
Mine Rescue, by Fletcher Martin, 1939. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
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A nineteen-year-old boy diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma requested help from the Make-A-Wish Foundation in 1998 to hunt a moose with his father. His request was denied. A year later the foundation instituted a national ban on firearm-related wishes, and the boy’s mother founded Hunt of a Lifetime, an organization devoted to sending terminally ill children deep-sea fishing or on hunting trips for sheep, elk, moose, or bear.
Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898