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...people who knew McVeigh from his hometown of Pendleton, New York, about 15 miles northeast of Niagara Falls, recognized him from the composite sketch. And some of his classmates and teachers from Starpoint High, where McVeigh graduated in 1986, would have nominated him as least likely to be the bomber. "He wasn't a troublemaker at all," says Wendy Stephany, while Cecelia M. Matyjas, his tenth-grade geometry teacher, remembers how "the kids used to pick on him." Schoolmates sarcastically voted the taciturn McVeigh "Most Talkative." Still, he showed initiative: he charged the neighborhood kids admission to a haunted house...
Those who came into contact with McVeigh more recently, however, tell a more disturbing tale. According to the Associated Press, he joined the Army after high school and served as a Bradley vehicle gunner and sergeant during the Gulf War. "He was a good soldier. If he was given a mission and a target, it's gone," said James Ives, another sergeant in McVeigh's Army infantry unit. He worked himself hard on his own time, hoping to qualify for the Army Special Forces. After he failed to make it, friends say, McVeigh, already a loner, became increasingly frustrated...
John Doe No. 2, however, appears to be still at large. And Terry Nichols' role in the crime, if any, is still unclear. But Terry and his brother James do know McVeigh. According to residents of Decker, McVeigh spent some time in the area several months ago, living with James Nichols in his neat, two-story, white frame farmhouse. According to Randy Izydorek, 26, a neighbor and acquaintance of the Nichols', McVeigh "deals in guns and goes to a lot of gun shows. My dad and I have seen his car loaded down with them a couple of times." McVeigh...
...instance, and aired complaints frequently at local school board or township meetings. "They feel there's too much government intervention in every aspect of your life," Izydorek explains. The Washington Post, however, reported a more grisly version of Nichols' activities: neighbor Dan Stomber claimed the brothers, along with McVeigh, were amateur bombmakers who would call him over to watch them set off bombs made with "household chemicals and plastic jugs, mostly...
...their antigovernment convictions that led at least McVeigh, and quite possibly Terry Nichols, to search for comrades among the young and growing Michigan Militia, a right-wing antigovernment brigade founded in April 1994 that now claims to have brigades in 66 of the state's 83 counties. Terry told Izydorek he was a member of that group, as well as another national confederation who call themselves "patriots." John Simpson, a militia member and skilled-trades worker at General Motors, denies the Nichols' involvement with the Michigan Militia, which claims some 12,000 members. "[Terry] came to one of our meetings...