David Feherty’s Veterans’ Hunt

December 1, 2009

David Feherty, former PGA Tour golfer and current CBS Sports analyst, loves the United States. And, he loves the troops that help defend it.

While this may come as a surprise – after all, he is Irish – it only takes a look at his feverish progress at becoming a United States citizen (and his adoption of Dallas as his official hometown) to understand a passion as foreign to the ex-pat lifestyle as grasping American football.

He simply loves this country.

It’s this love – and his undying support for the country’s military personnel – that prompts Feherty to reach out to injured and disabled troops year after year with a once-in-a-lifetime pheasant hunting trip in South Dakota.

Our own Kirby Schultz was fortunate enough to tag along and document this year’s trip, and it was nothing short of monumental. Sure, there was emotion. But there was also a feeling of accomplishment.

And, there was a hidden agenda – one that strikes at the heart of what a disabled veteran goes through: offering a slice of normalcy to someone who now lives life differently, all in the name of defending freedom.

The goal wasn’t to treat veterans with kid gloves. On the contrary – Feherty wants to treat these veterans like real people, offering the roughness of hunting without holding back, challenging the vets to work hard, just as they did before, just as they’ve always done, giving them a reason to feel strong again.

The trip is designed for fun. It was created to give back to vets who laid their lives on the line – and left a little behind in the process. But it’s also a way to dispel any feelings of hopelessness. To put control back in a disabled veteran’s court.

To feel human. To feel free. Which, at the center of it all, is one of the things our country strives to offer every day.

No wonder Feherty has adopted this place as home.

By Corey

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