Posted on 05/29/2007 10:02:28 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Standing ramrod straight in dress blues and crisp khakis, the seven color guard members lifted their rifles for one of the most solemn moments of any Memorial Day parade, the 21-gun salute. Hundreds who had gathered to witness the tribute watched in silence.
Just then, the eggs came flying. One glanced off a tree branch, and landed far away from the marchers in yesterday's Memorial Day Parade in Rockland, said Ryan Durfee , a former Marine who was marching in the color guard. Another crashed 8 feet in front of the color guard...
After the throwing , Durfee said he saw two teens run from their backyard into their house, and two police officers chase after them. Rockland police said last night that they arrested two 13-year-olds and charged them with disorderly conduct and assault with a dangerous weapon, a felony.
Rockland Police Chief John Llewellyn told FOX-25 TV that the culprits were a "couple of 13-year-olds that just wanted to cause some trouble and they picked the wrong time and the wrong group of people to do it to."
Durfee said the color guard completed its 21-gun salute despite the disturbance. But last night at the Rockland Veterans of Foreign Wars center , emotions were still raw, said Steven MacDonald , the post commander.
"It's very discouraging, especially on a day like today," MacDonald said. "We don't need somebody throwing eggs at us. That's crazy. It's unacceptable." MacDonald said several veterans are planning plan to show up at Hingham District Court today to demonstrate their disgust as the two teens are arraigned in the juvenile session.
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Some time in the brig might do the trick...
-They should be punished but it’s hard for me to see an egg as a, “dangerous weapon”.
I thought that was a little weird, too, unless they had been boiled so long they were hard as bullets.
At 13, a few weeks or a month of their summer locked up in juvenile detention might teach them a lesson.
Maybe they were hard boiled....
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They need to clean bedpans at the VA until they’re 21.
Are you high?
These 2 got their values from their lib-tard parents.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they were brought to Chucky Cheeses and then a late night of drunken debauchery as a reward from their folks for ‘standing up to the man’
Good....along, hopefully, with a few media types.
>> At 13, a few weeks or a month of their summer locked up in juvenile detention might teach them a lesson.
Spending their summer doing community service at a veteran’s hospital might be more effective.
An egg is a "dangerous weapon"? Come on, folks, that's a real stretch. It was very disrespectful, but a felony? I don't think so.
This has nothing to do with the subject of the story, but it should be noted that reporters are notorious for mistaking a "3 Shot Volley" for a "21 Gun Salute."
Well, if you are allergic, I guess it would be. Or maybe they were hard boiled? ;^)
Seriously, though, I doubt the kids will be punished. For all I know, their parents sent them out there to do it. It is Massachusetts, after all. Kudos to the Color Guard for staying the course, and yay to the police for actually chasing the little punks. They should be glad it wasn’t me that chased them.
My dad, a WWII vet, would have whupped me bowlegged if I’d pulled a stunt like that. These “sweetheart’s” parents will probably end up on Oprah complaining about how their little darlings have been misunderstood.
Isn’t it 7 soldiers firing 3 ‘rounds’ each?
3 X 7 = 21
I honestly don’t know - never served, only a Boy scout :)
I suspect it was to allow the prosecutor to pursue a more serious sentence..........which of course will be bargained down given that these were juveniles.
When liberals home-school their kids.
Having lived in Mass. for most of my life[not anymore]you are so right on!I’ve never seen such nasty mean people in my life>
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