Posted on 11/14/2010 9:17:35 PM PST by optiguy
Sgt. Jason J. McCluskey was laid to rest on Saturday with hundreds of his friends, family members and comrades in attendance. And there were hundreds more standing outside the First Baptist Church in McAlester listening to his memorial service via tall standing loudspeakers. And still there were hundreds more lining the roads and intersections from the church to the cemetery waving American Flags and patriotic signs. And there were yet hundreds more at his graveside services at the Tannehill cemetery.
The 26 year old Army paratrooper was killed in action on November 4th in Afghanistan. During his tour of duty Sgt. McCluskey was awarded two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star for his heroism. Jason’s grandmother Anita McCluskey said that her grandson’s “mission in life was to be a protector and defender, and that is what he did.” The small town of McAlester in South-Eastern Oklahoma came together as a community to honor their fallen hero and to honor the nation for which he laid down his life. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church made the trip from Kansas to spread their message of hate at Sgt. McCluskey’s funeral. The group whose hatred of homosexuals has inexplicably been channeled into highly offensive protests at military funerals, discovered that they were in the wrong town on Saturday.
The Tulsa World reports that the half-dozen Westboro protesters were easily drowned out by the friends and neighbors of Sgt. McCluskey who shouted “USA, USA, USA” and countered the “God hates America” message of the protesters with a proud show of American patriotism. After enduring the stringing rebuke of McAlester patriots, the protesters returned to their minivan only to find that both passenger-side tires had been slashed. To make matters worse, as their minivan slowly hobbled away on two flat tires,
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Absolutely no good can come from these Westboro miscreants.
This will very likely end badly for them and they will have sacrificed themselves for a totally meaningless and misguided cause.
Fools!
Until his would be mockees have learned to answer by flouting him wherever he goes, he will not consider his day in the sun to be over.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I drive through McAlister every time I visit my sister in Fort Smith. Great town!
Hey now.
The only reason the Great State of Texas doesn’t fall into the ocean is because Oklahoma sucks.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Better Sooner than later or an Arkie. LOL
“Wasn’t shouting them down and blocking them enough?”
They were lucky to escape town with only their tires slashed.
Damn, only 2 tires slashed, there was more work needed to be done on their van..........if you follow my drift.
They could’a stole their 8 track player....
Ssssshhh! I hear tell it's supposed to be sugar... '-)
A consequence of my 7 years in Piedmont is that my daughter is an OU grad. She and her husband live in Hutton, TX now.
I am totally illiterate when it comes to sports and am totally disinterested in sports also.
As far as Texas and OK are concerned, we have a long history of more cooperation than either states residents admit to.
I found it interesting that Sam Houston went to Oklahoma during the Civil War, because he took the unpopular position that Texas should not succeed from the U.S. He was for a time pretty unpopular for that position. He lived with the Indians in OK till the war was over. (he even married one, he had several wives)
Sugar, sugar! It is far more of a problem than sand.
Precisely. Who is to say the tires were just flat and they caused the cuts from driving on a flattened tire?
I used to be a Ride captain in the PGR. Whenever the Phelps clan showed up here, their van was always a rental.
Prior to one funeral, I had to appeal to the local folks not to vandalize their RENTED van by throwing paint balloons at it.
I always tried to keep things as peaceful as possible, so that my families could grieve in quiet dignity.
I've got to admit, however, that slashing those tires was pretty darn quiet!
Were I on a grand jury I would refuse to indict, were I on a jury I’d vote NOT GUILTY.
It’s about time. Yes, they have a right to protest, but so does the other side.
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