McVeigh told Norton that during the Special Forces tryout “he was told what they ‘really did,’ which included bringing illegal substances into the country and hunting and killing potentially innocent people.” According to Norton, his inability “to reconcile his ‘perfect’ image of the ‘good’ that the Army performed for the sake of the country to what he was told their actual mission may at times involve,” caused him to experience a remarkable, even earth shattering, sense of “dissonance.”
