Jack Teixeira's hometown of Dighton reacts to his arrest

The thoroughfare that was blocked by the FBI and swarmed by the media a fewer days agone is quiescent now.

But a antheral and a pistillate are nailing "No Trespass" signs to the trees connected some sides of the driveway, which leads to the location wherever Jack Teixeira was arrested.

"No comment," says the woman, waving maine away.

The 21-year-old aerial nationalist guardsman was charged connected Friday with what is being described arsenic the worst leak of US quality successful a decade. He is accused of posting classified documents successful an online chat radical implicit galore months.

It has intelligibly been a harrowing week for his family.

"It's clip to halt bothering them," says a antheral who jogs past.

The play of the past fewer days unfolded successful the tiny municipality of Dighton successful Massachusetts. It is partially rural, a farming and mostly working-class community. In Teixeira's neighbourhood, homes are acold isolated and built into a wooded area.

A fewer doors down, Ray Simmons is blowing leaves disconnected his lawn. The aged antheral had occupation getting location the time of the apprehension due to the fact that of the roadblock. He does not cognize his young neighbour, but is reserving judgment.

"The leaking, apparently, is obvious, but to what grade you don't know," helium tells me. "I'm not going to condemn up of time."

He says helium is much disquieted astir different quality helium heard this week, that North Korea had tested an intercontinental ballistic rocket perchance susceptible of targeting the United States.

A fewer miles distant a fashionable diner is buzzing with the Saturday greeting crowd. There is simply a motion advertizing a peculiar meal for Patriot's Day connected Monday - Massachusetts is 1 of 2 states that observe the holiday.

I inquire 1 of the patrons, Gary Best, whether helium thinks Teixeira was unpatriotic.

"Oh definitely," helium rapidly responds, past pauses. "It was atrocious judgment," helium adds, "he's a kid who didn't deliberation astir what helium was doing, the consequences oregon what it means to this country."

One woman, who didn't privation to beryllium named, called Teixeira a "smart idiot" for utilizing his brains successful this way.

"I don't cognize what I deliberation of each this, and galore others consciousness the aforesaid way," she says. "Everyone is shocked."

Daniel Barone, who's 1 twelvemonth older than Teixeira, says his grandma called him astatine enactment "and she was, like, idiosyncratic from our municipality conscionable got arrested by the FBI! It's beauteous crazy."

"This municipality is ne'er known for anything," his parent Kim agrees. "If you springiness radical directions they don't cognize wherever Dighton is, truthful for america to marque it to nationalist (attention) and present the satellite is conscionable benignant of surprising."

She feels atrocious for the family, she says. "For a 21-year-old to marque that benignant of mistake and ruin his full beingness is simply a lot."

Another pistillate introduces herself arsenic Deacon Sue - she is progressive successful a section religion and comes from a subject background.

"My bosom aches for him and his family, for the mediocre choices that helium made," she said. "But by the aforesaid token he's aged capable to cognize close and wrong. This is for subject security, and helium enactment a batch of different radical astatine risk."

Among bikers gathered astatine a adjacent motorcycle dealership, determination is not a batch of sympathy for Teixeira - but determination is incredulity that specified a inferior serviceman had apical level information clearance.

Mark Allen, a navy vet, dismisses him arsenic a "kid" who wasn't adjacent "full military" arsenic a subordinate of the nationalist guard.

"You've got to beryllium astute capable to cognize that if it was apical concealed you don't amusement disconnected by telling your friends connected the internet," helium says.

"I deliberation a batch of this online worldly is going to beryllium the demise of the satellite that we utilized to know. It's bully but it's bad, and I deliberation the bad's been outweighing the good."

Allen says a subject tribunal martial would beryllium much due than a proceedings successful a national civilian court.

Rashad Ellis, different vet, is astir acrophobic astir imaginable harm to "brothers and sisters" successful the military.

"You've got to look retired for the greater good," helium says. "That's what we bash it for, God and country. It's hard erstwhile you springiness retired accusation that could perchance wounded our brothers and sisters. The mode we look astatine it, it's each family."