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After reading your books, I see you’ve experienced many challenges in life beyond the obvious. I’m so grateful for your tenacity to heal yourself and nature. I’ve waited a long time for hope to spread its wings. Seems like it takes a falconer to make it happen

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Thank you for sharing this part of your life with us, Bobby. It makes you more real to me and YES, it helps me to see the spiritual side of you that partnering with nature brings out. I also read that book when I was a child. I loved it.

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Thank You! Thank you for sharing.

That spirituality is going to make you or break you.

It gave me goosebumps.

It cannot be found in today’s world.

As children we experienced some of it. Some more, than others.

And life got busy. There was little opportunity to get back to that place.

I truly appreciate everything you are doing today.

Keep at it.

You can.

Even if the whole world is watching!

God Bless you.

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There is "Food For A Crow" in Gaza.

Take the right stand, please, Mr. Kennedy.

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How perfectly wonderful.

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I wish I had a childhood that could afford trips like that to magestic places, doing majestic things like you explain here which is amazing.

It kind of makes me annoyed with asking for donations from us working folk.

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I recently attended a presentation by a couple of guys that were about as close to good ole boys you ever seen. Both made 50 70 k a year on their jobs, they were Hawkers. They were speaking to an older hunt group.

It didn't seem real expensive, just a lot of time. Being in So AZ there was places 20 minutes away. In the movies it always the prince, funny he mentions Camelot. It's really not all that glamorous it's hard and dirty.

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We think you’re way cool for this, future president Bobby, plus for how you can just pick up rattlesnakes WITH YOUR BARE HANDS! #thatisamazing! .

Two baby squirrels whose mom had been run over crawled out of their nest way too young, on my BIRTHDAY, so I figured it was the Lord, Almighty, giving me the gift I’d always wanted, two baby squirrels who needed my care.

We have been squirreling ever since. Two months of bottle-feeding & then adding all the other foods & exercising them, & they’re doing great! They’ll get released as soon as I can get the wildlife people to approve it & find a safe spot far from our busy road… or maybe it’ll happen in the spring. I’m like, if the Kennedys can have a sea lion in their pool for a while (or was it a seal… or an otter??), surely I can help these baby squirrels back to health (yes, licensed wildlife rehabilitation specialists are our close confidants…)

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That’s fantastic. Perhaps consider sticking to falcons and litigation.

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If Mr Kennedy followed your suggestion then such a Champion for Children's Health Defence - that he founded - and his income decreased. Time well over and above the call of duty, has helped to establish CHD in a number of Countries and has done and is doing so much good.

America and the world is very fortunate to have such an experienced, practical, well read intelligent man -in many areas of knowledge, that shall be vital as POTUS. His family has already given him the grounding in knowledge and qualities that are desperately needed by USA, with more problems to come - sadly) and shall help in so many practical ways to truly assist and improve world relations and Security.

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Himmler raised chickens, RFK Jr. plays with birds, what does that have to do with his credibility or qualification to be elected POTUS? A closed examination of RFK Jr.'s history reveals a privileged scion of a family who generationally thought themselves exempt from the rules the rest of us are bound to.

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If we could only get our country to soar to new heights like the falcon and return us to peace , justice and a brand new American way. Who else promises they will but a Kennedy? No one.

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Awesome, and we know you’ll watch Fauci like a hawk!

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When I first saw the headline for this essay, I assumed you were going to talk about physicist Stephen Hawking. :-D

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I thought the Headline was meant in the days of salesmen going door to door and hawking their goods. Read When I was 9 years old, and thought that's a bit young to force realities on a child in that way......

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Mr. Kennedy, what surprised you most about hawks?

Love that you have such a hobby that's tied to nature!

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Apparently, you also enjoy hawking for genocide under the rubric of "defense." I doubt you learned that from your uncle.

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You must be a real hoot at Thanksgiving dinners.

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Thankfully, I enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with eight sans political discussion except for one woman's tale of having to get jabbed to return from international travel. I think Bobby's popularity would have exploded if he'd taken a stand against Israel. Is AIPAC truly this powerful? Is this the greed of geopolitics seeking a railway bypass of the Suez Canal through Gaza? Bobby supports a complete horror show. He's now left with lame apologists in his camp. Perhaps sheepdogging rather than really running was always his intent.

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I’d suggest he could have found more nuance vs unconditional support. Waving a flag from a foreign country was a bit too much for me.

Twas appalled when DeSantis signed two Florida anti speech laws in Israel. Now we top the charts for most expensive state to live in.

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My regular running training took me on forest roads, often under starlight. In such cases, the familiar falcon was replaced by an owl, which accompanied me as a shadow for a short distance. Over the years, the inhabitants of the forests and fields got used to my steps, the jackal howled near me, the badger grunted, the deer ran away and I could smell the scent of the wild pace.

Being one of them is a beautiful experience of my life.

It is uplifting to see your relationship with this amazing creature.

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Naturalist Science is a great subject that needs renewal. Love and appreciation for nature is not just spiritual, it can help improve relationships and mental health.

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