By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
For Verlin Mattox, merging with the sea of bikers who rolled into the capital yesterday as part of the annual "Rolling Thunder" rally was part of the healing process for a war he fought 30 years ago.
"We need something like that because a lot of people have forgotten," she said, looking as excited as her son Scott, 6, who was holding out his hand to the bikers for a shake and covering his ears the next moment.
