Stickman is one of the more colorful commenters at Huckleberries Online. The Coeur d'Alene resident has brightened the lives of local schoolchildren and numerous HBO readers by giving away walking sticks he carves from tree limbs he largely finds on Tubbs Hill, often accompanied by a jar of homemade huckleberry jam. Stickman is also a Vietnam War vet who feels he finally received the proper welcome home during the Veterans Day observance this month in Washington, D.C. Not only did Stickman chat with Dan Rather, Colin Powell and Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne, but he was part of a parade of Vietnam vets who marched down Constitution Avenue toward the Vietnam Wall. "It was glorious, with thousands cheering us on from the sidelines," Stickman commented on Huckleberries Online. "Vietnam vets needed that cheer as we never got it when we came home."

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