Around him, soft green hills stretch to the horizon, descending into cool glades crowded with broad-trunked, 400-year-old oak trees.

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Obie walked out onto the front lawn under the two-hundred-year-old oak and stared.

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Last August, a 40-year-old ex-soldier-turned singer for a white supremacist rock band shot up a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people, before taking his own life.

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The reality star will be bringing in the New Year at 1-OAK Nightclub at the Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Vegas Strip.

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