Dokken: Northern Minnesota deer shack serves up ‘Old Guard’ stories (from November 2006)

Dokken: Northern Minnesota deer shack serves up ‘Old Guard’ stories (from November 2006)

I don’t normally do this, but with deer season now upon us, I thought I’d share this column I wrote nearly 20 years ago, as it appeared in the Sunday, Nov. 19, 2006, edition of the Grand Forks Herald. All these years later, the column still resonates, I think. As friends and family gather this weekend in hunting camps across the Northland, chances are most of them at some point will raise a toast to camp members no longer with them. It should b…