Why?

[DianaB]

I was sitting and reading our local paper and had just finished reading where a soldier in Iraq had been killed in action from a local town when my daughter called to tell me that she heard that the church that picket's the funerals of soldiers, the Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka, is going to be at the funeral of this soldier in the morning. The funeral is going to be in our town and then he'll be taken to his own town for burial. I can't believe that this is going to happen. The soldier was only 30 years old and has small children. What are these people thinking to do something like this? My daughter said that the schools are going to take the students out to wave flags and I guess that the Freedom Riders ride along side the family and try to muffle the sound of the protesters. I think that it is so sad that the family has to deal with this!!!