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World War II veteran has luck of the draw

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World War II Navy veteran Dale States scopes the hillsides looking for elk. The 89-year-old veteran uses a walking stick made from the teak wood deck of the battleship North Carolina. States said the walking stick was made by one of his shipmates Paul Wieser, after the battleship was restored in 1999. “Paul is no longer with us but I called his wife and told her I used the stick to steady my gun and…

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