A few thoughts on this fraught moment in time
When a man named John Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, my family and I were on a camping trip in what is now Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. I was just ten years old, and though we spent a lot of time camping and hiking and backpacking in that area, I distinctly remember that specific trip — warm days of skitte…
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