20 years of regret: "It should've been the September Seven"

Dennis Whitesides

Story by Lyman Johnson
New Plymouth - Regrets, he's had a few. Dennis Brownsides often sits quietly in his New Plymouth, ID home, wondering what could have been. "Had I only known what was coming down the road..." He drifts off into deep thought again, staring into the distance.

I've come to this sleepy Idaho town to answer the question: How close were we to having a September Seven? Dennis and I have been meeting the past few days to pore over old photographs and scan through old journal entries. "I grew up as a LaDaSa. I bet you didn't know that". I did actually. I'd done my homework. "Let's get back to the journals," I say wearily. It's been a grinding, depressing few days.