National Guard Youth Foundation : Making a Difference

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Aug 6, 2006

STARTING OVER

Casper Star-Tribune, WY
By John Morgan

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They were the bad boys.

Cutting class to sneak out behind the school for a smoke or worse, they were the kids who dropped out of high school and disappeared.

They were, until the state of Wyoming reached out to offer them a second chance.

“I didn’t care about anyone or anything,” said Daniel Harmon of Douglas, one of the 22 young men who graduated in June from the National Guard’s first Youth ChalleNGe program in Wyoming. “Most of the time I would just skip class and go smoke weed in the parking lot.”