Matthew Shepard - Thar Tribune

Matthew Shepard - Thar Tribune

“It’s a cold wind blowing, blowing, Wyoming… …I’ve seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire, Left to die on a high ridge fence” There is a particular sort of innocence in believing the world will let you live; and let you live as yourself.  Benjamin Franklin once wrote that at twenty, the will reigns. At twenty-one, a small, thin kid from Wyoming should have had enough of it left in him for mundane mornings and college lectures, for ordinary nights that…