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Next time one reaches all the way inside my tent I promise I'll grab its arm and hang on for dear life. I guarantee there'll be some physical evidence left on my broken, mangled body.

My statement was in no way intended to be racist, and I resent individuals using the 'race card' to win arguments in regards to killing bigfoots. Bigfoots are reported to be human like and some call them derogatory names to justify hunting them. I simply pointed out how the Marines tried to instill racism by making the enemy look subhuman by calling them derogatory animal names. This is the same tactic used by you know who. Just call them Sasquatch as the native Americans did since they lived with them for an estimated 12,000 years. My dark skinned Father grew up in a small town where Native Americans were not welcome. A story was made about being a 'black scotch' to quell the issue. One day, the DI's picked a black buddy of ours to throw over a 20' muddy bank during a rain storm at the rifle range. He had shot badly. He was ordered to run up the bank and to yell, "Yes sir, Yes sir" while the DI's yelled obscenities. He got to the top only to be kicked in the stomach then slid to the bottom again. This was repeated at least five times. Why didn't I step in and stop this rings in my mind? This fellow, black, yellow, red, or white was my buddy, and I sometimes hate myself for not interfering. My statements below were misread by some, so read them again and again until the true message arrives between your ears. The g.... word was not coined by me. It helped young Marines to kill the enemy with out guilt. Attack the message and not the messenger. Below is my message which could have been worded better, and sorry if some misunderstood and were offended by what I said below: "In my opinion the military mentality is unbecoming for a man of your ambitions. Calling it a 'wood ape' is the way we rationalized the killing of 'gooks' as being just fine. I would have done it..........but would my conscience allow the memory to evaporate? Why not become more of a primatologist and capture one on film or alive. Get Jane Goodall out there and capture one on video or alive." Many hunters report bigfoot as being human looking, and their conscience wouldn't allow them to shoot. My point is let your conscience be your guide.

Thanks bud, I just want to say "thank you" to all of NAWAC, and especially you Bipto. You take a lot of heat, and I feel for you. Iam one of your biggest fans and I sincerely wish you guys the best of luck for 2014. Keep on keeping on!!!

After several encounters, some within touching distance, I've definitely put some thought into it. Before I knew what to call them, before I met anyone else who mentioned them, I understood them as some freakish species of man. I'll go with my personal experiences. What defines them as man, or near man? Biologically, the number of chromosomes, TBD. The capability to interbreed, to the extent that such accounts are credible (which stongly suggests the same number of chromosomes as we have). To me, specifically, it is human interaction. For two weeks I kept telling myself that the first one I encountered close up was just some sort of freakish man (of our own species). My second encounter convinced me that it was not human in the narrow definition of homo sapiens, but still very much human in the broader sense.

I absolutely do think about it Bip, but it's not just what I think, It's what science says every time they encounter the evidence which is either evidence of a human or fabricated by one. I honestly don't attribute that to the game skeptical scientists play with BF proponents. My position isn't based on emotions , feelings, or a tendency to anthropomorphise whats really there. It's all about defining the line between what's human and what's not and you won't be able to argue behaviors or accomplishments between apes and humans with a dead specimen. Have you thought about what you will do when the scientists keep telling you it has human DNA and all you have to come back with is your opinion that it's not?

That may or may not be a true statement. There is nothing in the fossil record that Science currently recognize/acknowledge as bigfoot that has been found. That does not mean misidentified or misunderstood (out of context) BF fossils have not been found. They might even be on public display somewhere as something else. If they are Gigantopithecus or Homo, we probably have fossils of their ancestors, we just haven't connected the dots yet. MIB

They'll become an industry, a political football, a cause, and that's just a start. If they are recognized as a species of human, it'll get really interesting.

We can bloviate all we want about kill vs. no-kill, and try to elbow each other off of the high moral ground all we want, but it won't change this inevitable outcome: Sooner or later, if this animal exists ( and my $ says "yes" and "sooner") somebody will bring a specimen. There is nothing we can say or do to prevent that at this point, and the longer the discussion lasts, the more certain that becomes. You don't want to be that person? Fine and dandy. Just don't confuse that stance with anything that will prevent it from happening. All we can hope to control is the aftermath of that event, and even that is too dependent on the actual circumstances to predict with any degree of useful certainty. It is likely to be an event that will go where it will go, despite the best efforts of some to control that. So, to quote Stymie at the top of the hill: "I don't know where's we be going, but we's on our way!"