To the editor: The Fort Dodge Evening Lions Club wishes to congratulate the two winners of this year’s Travel Voucher Raffle Drawing. They are, first for $3,
target, but then it seemed they got lucky. that s when this man, a young american who grew up only 50 miles from here made his way to pakistan to offer his help. he is brian neil venus and this is how a quiet, studious middle-class kid suddenly transformed into a dangerous enemy of the state. brian is almost a post eer child for the process and unremarkable nature of the people who might go through this process and the danger that presents. reporter: i ve spent the better part of a year here in the u.s. and in europe unraveling how and why brent went from catholic to muslim, from u.s. army recruit to jihadist, from long island to lahore. bryant, grew up on this street in a middle-class neighborhood on long island.
forced sermons across the state to be re-written. the first service on a mother s day that i have not preached a mother s day service. reporter: it s caused many here to try to find meaning behind the floodwaters that flowed through a church and elementary school, that peeled the pavement off of roadways, tore up railroad tracks and swept away homes. the water blasting through with so much power the only thing left were the foundations. brian stringer s house still stands, but a river ran through it. the same one that went through the shacklet church of christ. even his work helping katrina victims couldn t prepare him for what he found at home. until you really experience that yourself, there s no word to describe what you see. reporter: brian s home is directly across the street from his church. the shacklet church of christ. as we see gutted remains where