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Article: Soldiers in White Supremacist Uniforms; 2 Murder Suspects From Fort Bragg Were Part of Fringe Culture
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- The Washington Post
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- December 11, 1995
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By day, the two soldiers wore standard issue Army fatigues bearing
what is known as the "All American" patch of the elite 82nd Airborne
Division of Fort Bragg.
By night, they donned the black boots and white laces, red
suspenders, flight jackets and chains that make up an unofficial
uniform that signifies white power, and became part of a subterranean
culture of white supremacist skinheads. They hung out at private
underground nightclubs that catered to this fringe.
Such were the lives of Army privates James Norman Burmeister II,
20, and Malcolm Wright, 21, the two main suspects in the deadly,
racially motivated shooting of a black man and woman last Thursday
that has shocked this Army town ...