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Thank you for doing this, Mr. Mace. I served in the Peace Corps for two years on the island of Angaur, which is just south of Peleliu by a few miles. There were lots of war relics, including some planes, scattered over our island. I stayed on Peleliu a few times and was able to see the tanks, the caves, and get the stories of how the battle went down from a local perspective.

I'd love a quick synopsis of your story from Peleliu, with particular emphasis on your interactions with Palauans, how you dealt with the thick vegetation, and what you did for water?

Peleliu is such a beautiful place - were you ever able to see it as such during or after the war? Have you ever been back?

edit: I just read that you also served in Okinawa. I just returned this week from living on Zamami for the last five years. That was the island where the U.S. first landed and used as a base for their attack on the Okinawan mainland. I'd love to ask you questions about that, too, if you don't mind.

Mark 5? Damn, they're already testing that!? :)

(for non-camera people the Mark 3 was just released this year.. I'm assumed that's what he's shooting with and this was a typo.)

They will not answer these questions because they are not actually proposing a plan that will ever allow hunting of wolves again. Just like they did in Montana and Idaho, they will state a minimum population number that is acceptable, then when those numbers are exceeded (doubled or tripled, even), they will up their threshold and keep litigating. They actually get paid BY THE GOVERNMENT to litigate, whether they win or lose, so this is a career job for them.

Edit: The information that I thought was in that article about the environmentalists getting paid even if they lose was not there. I'm going to look around a bit to see if I can find that cited elsewhere, but that may have been incorrect of me.

Edit 2: Environmentalists don't appear to get paid if they lose, but taxpayers foot their legal bills when they win.

Because then they stop getting paid...