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BORN: May 25, 1952, Pendleton EDUCATION: Brigham Young, B.A., 1976; Southwestern U, J.D., 1979 FAMILY: Wife, Sharon; three children RELIGION: Mormon MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Frozen-food company executive; lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Oregon Senate, 1993- ADDRESS: 5285 Southwest Meadows Road, Suite 181, Lake Oswego...
...barred until he had a bathing suit tattooed upon her). Recruiters are forwarding snapshots of dubious tattoos to senior officers for their approval before the wearers are allowed into the Marines. The issue took a serious turn following the March 5 murder of a Marine lieutenant colonel at Camp Pendleton, California, allegedly by a sergeant under his command. The suspect has a tattooed teardrop coming out of the corner of his left eye, which may be a gang symbol. Under current Marine regulations, though, a teardrop is perfectly unobjectionable. That is expected to change. A corps panel is codifying...
McVeigh grew up in Pendleton, New York, a town of 5,010 some 15 miles east of Niagara Falls. His parents divorced when he was 10; he and one sister stayed with his father, another sister stayed with his mother. McVeigh's high school teachers and classmates remember him as intelligent (his IQ is a well-above-average 125), an excellent student in subjects that interested him and a quiet but friendly companion. His final grade-point ranking was not quite high enough to qualify him for a course in computer programming that he hoped to take, and he eventually...
...hitch, writing a letter to his commander claiming that his civilian job required his presence. "But the letter was real vague-it didn't say just what this new job was," the official says. Though he worked off and on as a security guard, both near his hometown of Pendleton, New York, and in Arizona, Terry Nichols has said the two also worked together selling Army surplus at shows around the country...
...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...