CNN 2012-08-12

 Good evening, everyone. We are coming to you from Oak Creek¹, Wisconsin, again tonight. There are significant new developments to tell you about in the wake of Sunday's shooting at the Sikh Temple. 

 

 

 

There is also here in Oak Creek a quiet, ongoing² effort to, quote and “try to come to grips with what’s happened”. Some of it is taking place at a makeshift memorial not far from where we are tonight. People have been stopping there all day to leave a remembrance, say a prayer, or just silently pay their respects to the five men and one woman killed Sunday morning. 

 

 

 

There have been vigils as well and ceremonies. Both religious and secular³. Not just to recognize the loss of six lives but to honor the lives of six people. We're here because that healing effort and those six lives, they deserve attention. 

 

 

 

But we also want to tell you tonight about what we've learned about their killer⁴, Wade⁵ Page. A man motivated by hate. Who officials say took inspiration from the swastika(万十字章). Where precisely⁶ that hate came from, where it all came together and when, we don't yet know. We do know that one of his stops on the road to Sunday's massacre⁷ was the time he spent at the army's Fort Bragg in North Carolina, which of course has a long tradition of producing heroes. 

 

 

 

Drew Griffin has been investigating how and when Wade Page was at Fort Bragg, what his service entailed(要求做到). He joins us now. Drew, what have you found about Page's time in the military? 

 

 

 

Well, we, it was not stellar, we'll tell you that in a little bit. But we wanted to focus on Fort Bragg because Fort Bragg, as you said, produced a lot of heroes, thousands and thousands of heroes. But back in 1995, it had a mark on it, on that fort, because there was a murder of a black couple outside the base, Anderson. 

 

 

 

Three soldiers identified as neo-Nazi⁸ skinheads were caught and convicted of that crime. They basically just picked their victims for one reason. They wanted to kill blacks. The army came under fire because it was very obvious that these soldiers were neo-Nazis. One of them even had what was described as a Nazi shrine⁹ where he was living. That led to a crackdown by the army on trying to weed out racists in the ranks and about two dozen soldiers were kicked out. 

 

 

 

The army found there were threads of a subculture of hate in its ranks. And they've had to, you know, address that over the years. 

 

 

 

Did that subculture involve Wade Michael Page? And is that where his racist¹⁰ views began? Do we know at this point? 

 

 

 

You know, there's been a lot of ink written about this just over the last few days trying to put these dots together. It was about the same time frame that Wade Michael Page was at Fort Bragg. But we actually tracked down the original prosecutor¹¹ of that crime, of the case today. He told us at the time they searched high and low for accomplices¹², even a bona fide hate group at the base. They found neither. He never came across Page. Even going back mentally in his notes today, he couldn't come up with that name. 

 

 

 

Organizations that monitor hate groups do say the military can attract people who have hate-filled, you know, feelings but there's no clear indication that Wade Michael Page had anything to do with any of these neo-Nazis that were at Fort Bragg at that time. 

 

 

 

He was kicked out of the army though? 

 

 

 

He was kicked out but not for hate. In 1998 he was kicked out of Fort Bragg. He was first demoted sergeant¹³ down to a specialist, and then kicked out because he was drunk. We know he tried to make it in the hate music scene, kept picking up odd jobs after getting fired. He worked in the parts department of this North Carolina motorcycle shop. This is near Fort Bragg, by the way. 2000, 2003, 2004, he worked at that shop. But his boss fired him. And I want you to listen to why. John Tew told us this guy just had no respect for women. 

 

 

 

“The thing I remembered mostly about him was the way he dressed. He dressed, in my opinion, just like the neo-Nazi-type person would dress. And he was very quiet. Kept to himself, was very efficient worker.” 

 

 

 

But then he changed a little bit. He could not interact with females. And he had a problem with female authority. And that's, he had such a problem that I started writing him up. Then eventual¹⁴ put him on probation¹⁵. And then we eventually terminated him because he's, he just refused to take any orders from any female. 

 

 

 

And his supervisor¹⁶ was a female. John Tew says that when Page left, Anderson, he actually left behind an application to join the Ku Klux Klan. Page came back for it, too. They'd already thrown it into the trash. We also know that two years ago he was fired from a trucking company after he was cited for driving while impaired¹⁷. Anderson.

1 creek   

n.小溪，小河，小湾

参考例句：

• He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
• People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。

2 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

3 secular   

n.牧师，凡人；adj.世俗的，现世的，不朽的

参考例句：

• We live in an increasingly secular society.我们生活在一个日益非宗教的社会。
• Britain is a plural society in which the secular predominates.英国是个世俗主导的多元社会。

4 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

5 wade   

v.跋涉，涉水；n.跋涉

参考例句：

• We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
• We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。

6 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

7 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

8 Nazi   

n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的

参考例句：

• They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
• Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。

9 shrine   

n.圣地，神龛，庙；v.将...置于神龛内，把...奉为神圣

参考例句：

• The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
• They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。

10 racist   

n.种族主义者，种族主义分子

参考例句：

• a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
• His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。

11 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

12 accomplices   

从犯，帮凶，同谋( accomplice的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He was given away by one of his accomplices. 他被一个同伙出卖了。
• The chief criminals shall be punished without fail, those who are accomplices under duress shall go unpunished and those who perform deeds of merIt'shall be rewarded. 首恶必办， 胁从不问，立功受奖。

13 sergeant   

n.警官，中士

参考例句：

• His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
• How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹？

14 eventual   

adj.最后的，结局的，最终的

参考例句：

• Several schools face eventual closure.几所学校面临最终关闭。
• Both parties expressed optimism about an eventual solution.双方对问题的最终解决都表示乐观。

15 probation   

n.缓刑(期)，(以观后效的)察看；试用(期)

参考例句：

• The judge did not jail the young man,but put him on probation for a year.法官没有把那个年轻人关进监狱，而且将他缓刑察看一年。
• His salary was raised by 800 yuan after his probation.试用期满以后，他的工资增加了800元。

16 supervisor   

n.监督人，管理人，检查员，督学，主管，导师

参考例句：

• Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说，我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
• He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。

17 impaired   

adj.受损的；出毛病的；有（身体或智力）缺陷的v.损害，削弱( impair的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Much reading has impaired his vision. 大量读书损害了他的视力。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• His hearing is somewhat impaired. 他的听觉已受到一定程度的损害。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》