Hathcock was asked by a typical reporter something like “Does it ever bother you - the people that you have killed?”
“The one’s I’ve killed!? No. The one’s I missed sure bother me though. How many of my brothers did they go on to kill because I missed?
“I really didn’t like the killing,” he once told a reporter.
“You’d have to be crazy to enjoy running around the woods, killing people. But if I didn’t get the enemy, they were going to kill the kids over there.” Saving American lives is something Hathcock took to heart.
Period.