by 1991, briggs and stratton alone had eliminated some four thousand in milwaukee. among the newly unemployed were tony neumann and jackie stanley. >> jackie stanley: when the doors at briggs closed on us, and they hand us our pink slips, i knew that i'm out here. it's sink or swim. >> bill moyers: jackie's husband claude had worked for another large manufacturer, ao smith. his job disappeared too. he found another one waterproofing basements for less than seven dollars an hour. >> claude stanley: you got to look at it on the real side. i cannot live like i was making $20 an hour. okay that money is not there. so you might as well get it in your mind, it's not there no more. so okay, bring yourself down. >> nicole stanley: i was young, about 14. >> bill moyers: did it scare you? the stanleys have five kids -- nicole, about to enter college when we met her, the oldest son, keith, the twins klaudale and claude jr., and omega. how'd your children take it when you came home and said you'd lost the job over at ao smith? or did you tell them? >> claude stanley: well, i to

. >> years ago, if you wanted a small engine, you got a briggs and stratton. >> moyers: for decades, briggs and dozens of other stalwart wisconsin manufacturers had helped make milwaukee just about the american dream's hometown, celebrated in sitcoms... >> ♪ give us any chance, we'll take it... ♪ >> moyers: and sentimentalized in beer commercials. >> so when miller time rolls around tonight, we raise a glass to you, milwaukee. you've earned it. >> moyers: when we met the neumanns in the early '90s, american manufacturers had already begun chasing cheap labor to non-union states and mexico. of over 40,000 good-paying jobs lost from milwaukee in the preceding decade, about 4,000 were from briggs and stratton. one of them was tony neumann's. >> it sort of goes like this. here and here. >> he gets into briggs and we think, "oh, this is a good company, we can buy a house." now we have the house, we have more bills. >> we gotta drill a hole. how big a hole do you want? >> not that big. >> but it's either rent for the rest of your life or own, and we prefer to own. i mean... >> moyers: that

stratton told fox he is not surprised by the statement.e all along believed nidal hasan to be a muslim terrorist. i believe that's exactly how he felt when he he did what he did. we should take him at his word. while hasan's note investigations for releasing the statement are unknown repeatedly requestedden interview has san. his death penalty case begins august 6th, shep. >> shepard: catherine, thanks. one of the simplest maneuvers for u.s. air force pilots landing another job. the military requires top guns to serve for 11 years. but, after that they can usually earn more money flying commercially. air force warns now that it faces a shortage of fighter pilots and it expects that shortage to get worse. jennifer griffin at the pentagon tonight. jen? >> shep, the air force estimates that without a serious recruiting effort, it could be short 700 pilots 8 years from now. >> now, we do have a fire power shortage and we're currently about 200 fighter pilots short. we are concerned about it. we expect' that shortage will continue to grow in ye