Part VI: "Meeting vets in Wyoming"

I’m apprehensive as we drive along Rt. 25 to Wyoming. We received some angry emails, after a story ran in the Casper newspaper about what we were doing. People seemed to think we had hunted down some weak-minded vets and brainwashed them into opposing the war. The idea that large numbers of vets could have those thoughts for themselves had not occurred to these people. One email made a vague reference to firearms.
The people in Casper are very pleasant, though. Herds of antelope run across the roads on the outskirts of town. A heavy snow has just fallen. We meet Brian, an athletic guy, and we find out right away that there’s been a mistake of some kind. Brian is totally in favor of the war. For a split second I wonder what is going to happen, but Brian is cool. I decide to include him—why the hell not? He was there. He shows me home movies of pick-up football games in Iraq. He strongly dislikes protests made up of folks who didn’t fight in Iraq. I ask him, “What about Iraq vets? What do you think if they speak out against the war?” Brian shrugs. They were there, he tells me, so that’s up to them.