
His wife had ignited the device accidentally, bursting into flames. He rounded up all the kids and handed the bomb’s detonator to his wife, then excused himself and went to the bathroom. It wasn’t a well-thought-out plan, as David was not exactly a sane man. They end with carnage.ĭavid had devised a plan to hold each of the school’s 136 children hostage for $2 million apiece. David had spent the previous few years working on a philosophical treatise he called “Zero Equals Infinity.” This is how it is with a certain type of American male. They carried semiautomatic weapons and a homemade gasoline bomb. On May 16, 1986, David and Doris Young entered an elementary school in Cokeville, Wyoming. And in one of them, our 15-year-old daughter could be forced to have a baby if she were raped. It’s handmaid in two out of five, I tell her. So Kyle wants to know, as we enter each state, whether she is a full citizen in this place, or a handmaid.

Wade, making what was a fundamental right contingent on which state a woman happens to be in. As we cross each state line, my wife asks, “Do I have all my rights here?” The week before our departure, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. States to be visited include New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. It is summer 2022, and I am on a road trip with my family from Austin, Texas, to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This vision of Americans is, of course, a myth.

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