Casper Star-Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 18

Saturday, July 17, 1999 D4 Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo Getting a head start Future 4-H kids practice showing animals i )'" i '-J- 1 if I 1 -i i ill Even Kylan Montgomery, a Hwnonth-old Utile cowboy, knew what he was doing with a bum sheep, which was twice his size. Like a pro, Montgomery with his dl-apers sticking out the top ol his light blue Wranglers, led the motherless sheep around the grass in a circle with the rest of the kids. lie was doing fine until suddenly he let go of the halter and walked away from Freckles the sheep. His aunt Taffl Montgomery picked him up and everything was line again. The live bums used during the show belonged to Taffl.

Her children, along with her niece and nephew, already know how to halter-break sheep, Talll said. "We would just put halters on the sheep when they were (Kylan's age) and turn the kids loose In the front yard," she said. Keckler, organizer ol the Mini Members show at the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo. Some ol the participants have older brothers and sisters who are In 4-H, but Keckler said she lound about live children to be In the show who have never been around larm animals. In recruiting younger children to practice showing small pigs, bum sheep, rabbits and goats, Keckler toured the carnival grounds and asked for a lew volunteers.

"Little kids love animals," Keckler said. "Even If they don't have any." Kindt twirls the tail ol her blonde French braid between her fingers. She wants to show sheep when she gets older, she says, because "they're cute." Most of the younger kids still have short attention spans, but giving them a chance to handle the animals is good practice lor the future, Keckler said. By MELISSA DAVIDSON Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER Five-year-old Kaylynn Kindt taps and pokes her pig with a stick a little too hard. She's trying to keep the pig In line.

"Easy now," her lather, Curt, advises. "Walk between them and move with your knee." Kindt points her stick at her dad and says, "Do you wanna be a pig?" She laughs and keeps doing her own thing. Kindt Is too young to be a 4-H member and show animals, but Friday she and about 25 other children 8 years old and younger got a chance to practice being lull-blown 4-Hers. "We ust thought this would be fun to do since some ol the little kids hang around the lair all week, but don't get to participate," said 4-H agent Jerri DAN CEPEDAStar-Tribun Kaylynn Kindt, 5, poses with her brother Carl Federer's goat Friday afternoon at the Central Wyoming Fairgrounds. Kaylynn hopes to Join FFA when she's older.

tnnmnimmnsr Memorial heals as it travels I lJlllIIIIMLI.HCMllllllM. I- WLUlllUUH.IUII.il I Hj I' ') A I r-' -i' fV-i '1 -i, 1J-- "4 JF I DAVID-WYNN MILLER Presents seminar today Miller touts rewriting laws KERRY HULLERSUr Tribune Visiting the Casper exhibit of The Wall that Heals while on vacation, Bernard and Gloria Snyders of Illinois do a rubbing of the name of Thomas E. Harrison, who died In combat while serving with Bernard. By DEBORAH DAVIS Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER John Anderson didn't know the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall existed until 1992. "I wasn't looking for anything like that," said Anderson, as he stood Wednesday afternoon behind the Information center at Fort Caspar.

Anderson served as an Army medic In the 123rd Aviation Battalion for 11 months in Vietnam, and when he returned in October of 1969 he wanted nothing to do with the general public, he said. He partled and rode motorcycles, but didn't want any reminders of the war until he saw a video presentation of the Run For The Wall, a coast-to-coast motorcycle ride designed to heighten awareness of prisoners ol war and those missing In action. He and his wile Linda participated in the ride the first year and coordinated the 3,300 mile pilgrimage for the next three years, which led the couple to travel with The Wall That Heals since its dedication on Veterans Day 1996. The work has dramatically changed both of their lives. "I have found out more about him (John) in the last three years than 1 have In the 29 years we've been married," Linda said.

As they traveled, Linda quickly learned that veterans speak openly only around other veterans. So she stood within earshot, picking up the names ol the places where they fought and hearing amazing stories. For example, when John was reunited with some of his buddies in Georgia, his sergeant talked about killing a baby a horror he has lived with for the past 30 years. John was able to set the record straight: What the sergeant thought was a gunshot wound was actually a birthmark on the baby's face. John was the one who called lor a medic pickup and sent the baby with a pilot, who was hesitant to take her until John told him he would know who to blame if the baby died.

The baby made it. And this former sergeant had always thought he was responsible for the Infant's death. The Wall That Heals has broken down another wall in the Anderson's life a wall that Linda has never been able 'I go see them every day now. 1 carry them to their JOHN ANDERSON, SITE MANAGER OF THE WALL THAT HEALS By TOM MORTON Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER Money, law, contracts and the U.S. Constitution, not to mention personal communication, are corrupt because of the wrong use of language, says David-Wynn Miller a wrong he Intends to right.

Miller will present a 12-hour "Law Procedure Seminar" at the Radisson Hotel at 9 a.m. today. The cost is $150, cash, per person or couple, but only couples who are husband and wife. He's presented 145 of these seminars around the country, and he has had thousands of students, he said Friday. His teachings have garnered the attention of Militia Watch, which monitors freemen organizations.

The Web site for Militia Watch calls Miller a "traveling sovereign huckster." Miller, 50, spells his name as "David-Wynn: Miller" because he said the conventional way of writing names make him an opinion, not a noun. Miller's interest in law began in 1980 after a divorce and child custody dispute, he said. The law discriminated against him because he was a man. Miller charged, so he decided to study law. He is not a lawyer.

However, he said he's logged 37,000 hours studying law and developed "an algebra formula that certifies all communications skills in any language frontwards and backwards." The wrong use of language has corrupted law and money, Miller said. Please ee MILLER, B2 Kv i 4 4 sr" -fmiiiffiifMmiWtMiiift1liriMl-lir''it't -n "I'm helping the men again except now it's with their heads Instead ol their bodies." Every day for 11 months out of the year, the Andersons help people locate their former comrades. For some, it's finally a time of closure. "It tears down the barriers a lot of vets put up," John said. "Some of them make the distance to Washington an excuse not to see it, and now here it is in their town." And John has used the years as a time to rediscover his old friends.

When he was working in Maine, a young man approached him with a list of names he wanted to find on the traveling replica. As John studied the list, he recognized that every name was from his unit, but the man was too young to have served then. Please ee WAll, B2 to reach beyond. "There used to be a part of his life that I couldn't be a part of," she said. "And if you weren't there, you don't even know what questions to ask." John laughs when he quotes the saying, "II you haven't been there, shut your mouth." But he's serious that no one understands like a veteran.

When John first visited the traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, he was scared of what he'd find, scared to discover other friends were dead. There are 35 names on the memorial who served in his unit. "I go see them every day now. I carry them to their hometowns," said John, with a slight, peaceful smile stretching across his face. For John, it's almost like continuing his job as a medic.

"I get a lot of satisfaction to see the healing begin," he said. Linda Anderson hands a visitor some information on 'The Wall That Heals' while at Fort Caspar. Wyoming Medical Center board reports increased patient numbers As the east wing nears completion, the WMC will embark on a series of renovations throughout the rest of the hospital. Schrader said. "We will move every patient care unit at least once." The patient numbers, tco.

have been Please sr MC, B2 Muirhead said. Traffic hassles around the hospital will continue for a while, but WMC plans in late July to return responsibility to the city for the maintenance of Conwell Street between Second and Third streets, he and Schrader said and marveling at the center's burgeoning building and business, hospital officials said Thursday. Business has been so good that the nine-member board approved a 3 percent wage increase to all employees. President Mike Schrader said The construction of its new 90.000-square-foot east wing is on track and on budget, board Chairman Chris Muir-bead said. The hospital plans to open the new emergency room in December and the upper floors of the wing in early 2000.

By TOM MORTON Star-Tribune staff writer CASTER The Wyoming Medical Center's board of directors began its new fiscal year Wednesday by naming a new board member, electing officers For information qiestions and comments ahxrt this nasje. call the news desk i.HQ 2fiM5K2 or 412-6916; email nrwnb com fax (307) HwWS 4.