The date is March 8th, the time is 08:59...
As registration as wrapped up and the safety briefing about to begin; your heart is pumping your mind is racing.
"What have I got myself into?" You mutter to yourself.
It's thirty degrees below freezing, the snow is blowing and you're having trouble keeping your glasses from frosting over.
"This is nuts! I think I should just call it off, but I'm already here."
You laugh aloud, you know the cold is playing tricks on you as you continue to talk to yourself.
Suddenly, you're reminded that the soldiers of the Revolution had to endure much worse conditions!
The winter at Valley Forge. The long marches, with little to nothing on their feet - leaving a trail of bloody footprints in the snow.
You then recall what Thomas Paine had wrote during the winter of '76:
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."
"I guess it's not to bad. I can do this! After all, this is Minnesota - I can hack it!"
Suddenly, you snap out of your day dream as the Shoot Boss is calling on you to recite the safety rules.
"Uhhhh....."
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Got my zero's double checked today. I will be there wearing lots of commie surplus wool!