Injured veterans take comfort in hunting, fishing

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Most days, Williams, 22, plays a waiting game at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, where he faces surgery to repair the knee he wrecked when he jumped from a truck to take cover during a mission in Iraq.

But on April 2, instead of staring at four walls, the soldier sits in a beach chair and threads a worm on a hook. The fish aren\’t biting, but catching one is secondary to simply being outside.

The program, Huntin\’ Buddies, was started by Lisa Webber, of White Hall, who has hunted and fished with her son, Robert, now 19, since he was 7.

When he left last summer for Army National Guard training, she created Huntin\’ Buddies, enlisted volunteers to help, and made contacts at Walter Reed. She now connects injured soldiers with outdoorsmen willing to take them on day trips.

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