Wes Coffey
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He's 40 now.
He has a glass eye and a scar that runs from his forehead to his jaw.
He has two kids, a boy and a girl.
He's a project manager for a construction company in Missoula.
We've talked about that day maybe five or six times in the last six years.
We don't bring it up often, but last Thanksgiving, after everybody had gone to bed, we were sitting on his back porch, and he said something to me I've been thinking about ever since.
He said, You know what I remember the most?
I said, What?
He said, It wasn't the pain.
It wasn't even the eye.
It was that it wasn't trying to kill me.
When it was on top of me, it wasn't trying to kill me.
It was tasting me.
I didn't say anything.
He said, I think they were going to take us back to that gut pile, alive.
I still didn't say anything.
He said, I think that's what that was.
That's what the pile was.
That's what they do.
We sat there for a long time.