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That hurt? >> oh, yeah. >> we need to numb him up then. >> you wouldn't want a lot of that? >> no, not at all. that really hurt. >> okay. i'm going to give you some numbing medicine. >> a good response, though. >> this part will sting for a few seconds but then it will get numb. >> unfortunately for something like this with these randomly placed tattoos, it's hard to do a single shot and get it done. you have so much. it's not the little needle sticks that hurt so much. this local anesthetic has a ph that's a little bit acidic, so it stings when it goes in. it's not a pleasant process. >> just...

Them. >> what do you think now of all these tattoos on your face? >> they drive me nuts. it's just a bad reminder of a part of my life that i left behind. >> bryon widner grew up in albuquerque, new mexico. >> when i was about 3 years old, i moved in with my grandparents along with my little sister. my grandmother was a severe alcoholic. i was told that i was pretty well worthless. i wouldn't ever amount to anything. this or that. by the age of 13, 14, i just started running away all the time. i became a chronic runaway at that point. just started living on the streets. >> at the age of 18, br...

>> i'm going to the pharmacy to get his prescription. his pain medicine. the second treatment has been a little bit harder for me to watch him go through because i know how much pain he was in the first treatment. and it hurts to see people you love in pain. >> there's some swelling in the hospital and, by the time we got home it was pretty poofed out. by about 10:00 last night, my eye was already almost this bad and it just progressively just keeps getting worse. i still have flashbacks. past things that i've done. things that have happened to me. >> one of bryon's recurring nightmares center...

You didn't sit where they sat. we were better than them. that was normal. the only way to describe it is that the blacks and minorities were like a cockroach. they were like second class citizens. >> at age 29, julie joined the national alliance. >> the national alliance is a neo-nazi movement and this particular organization is not the kind that goes around wearing swastikas and brown shirts. they were looking for a more subtle member because they felt like if their members were in the system, they could make more changes. >> after 16 years in the movement, bryon, along with his wife julie, b...

It's cool. they join gangs because usually they're street kids, they're destitute and they have nothing. >> as bryon's appetite for violence increased he moved to indiana and joined the outlaw harm skins, a crew who had been kicked out of the national umbrella group, harm skin nation. >> hammer skins had such a reputation that they demanded respect. they demanded fear. if a hammer skin came to a party you knew it and everyone treaded lightly around them. they were known for being incredibly violent, incredibly tough. everyone was very weary around hammer skins. everyone wanted to join. i was w...