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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Tuesday, March 31st. I'm Mac Watson.

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Decades after being shunned and spat upon, Vietnam veterans packed the National Museum of Military Vehicles for Wyoming Welcome Home Day on Sunday. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that the museum's owner says, "We have a chance to help veterans heal and give them the honor and recognition they didn't get."

"It's an immersive experience. The owner, Dan Starks – he wants people to go in there and see it and understand it, and really connect with other veterans, to understand what they went through to support America. But in particular, he spent the most money on the Vietnam exhibit. He particularly wanted people to understand that war to see what veterans faced. But it's a little too immersive for some of the Vietnam veterans, who told me they went through it once, and they won't go through it again, because it just brings back too many memories."

Museum owner Dan Starks particularly wanted the Vietnam exhibit to be an immersive experience and spent the most money on that portion of his museum, which he says is the largest private collection of military vehicles in the world.

Read the full story HERE.

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Wyoming leaders and tech giants like Google, Meta, and Amazon will discuss whether the state can capture a share of the exploding AI data center boom at a closed-door Jackson summit this week. Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports that Governor Gordon is saying this is a big deal for Wyoming.

"He wrote to Cowboy State Daily, giving us a preview of some of his comments, and he compared it to some of the biggest moments in American history. He says Wyoming is poised to deliver the nation's needs on Wyoming's terms. One of the hosts of economics professor from the University of Wyoming, he's saying this is this summit is part of what is probably going to amount to the largest mobilization of human and financial capital in the history of the planet."

A March 2026 report from Blackridge Research identified Wyoming among the states where the Stargate AI infrastructure project — a joint venture of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank — might expand beyond its initial Texas base. That mention put Wyoming alongside Michigan, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania in the emerging data center sweepstakes.

Read the full story HERE.

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Retired Navy Master Chief Mike Archer has a message for whoever stole a trailer holding a collection of military medals from in front of a Cheyenne VFW Post last week. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports that Archer says the collection is valued at between $30Kand $50K.

"It was actually a pretty incredible collection, every medal, every decoration, for every branch of the military, for every war, going back to the Civil War, 1000s of pieces. They even have this collection even has four medals of honor, one for each branch of the service. But this whole really impressive collection that took them, like 25 to 30 years to gather all of these, all these ribbons and metals and everything."

Archer calls the theft of the fully-loaded white 16-foot cargo trailer "the ultimate stolen valor," because each of the decorations for the group's exhibit — which takes 50 tables to display — represents a veteran's sacrifice.

Read the full story HERE.