Disturbing Details About Timothy McVeigh's Time In The Military

McVeigh was obsessed with survivalist and anti-government culture starting from the age of 14, a neighbor told Fox News. After graduating high school, he enrolled in and then dropped out of computer school, and later enlisted in the Army.

McVeigh, along with friend and recruit platoon leader Terry Nichols, were considered attentive, hard-working soldiers. "He was the best soldier I met when I was in the Army — by far," one soldier who served alongside McVeigh told CNN. "Everything we did he excelled at. He was the best always."

But his dark side was immediately apparent. McVeigh never dated or talked about women other than his sister. He bought 10 acres of land in upstate New York and told fellow soldiers that he planned to use it as a bunker. He also was known as a racist — at one point, a biography of McVeigh claimed (via CNN), he joined the KKK, though he did not renew his membership, because he thought they were too focused on race over second amendment rights.

Oddly, though, in an interview with his biographers, McVeigh said that it was his fellow soldiers that were too violent. "Twenty times a day, it would be, 'Blood makes the grass grow! Kill! Kill! Kill!' You would be screaming that until your throat was raw," he said, according to CNN. "If somebody put a video camera on that, they would think it was a bunch of sickos."

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