Watch the video first of the footage shot from a MS Highway Patrol car of the people in Mississippi welcoming home fallen SSGT Jason Rogers.
YouTube - Fallen USMC Staff Sgt. Jason Rogers returns home to Brandon MS.
If you have seen the video, go ahead and read what is in quotes below. Written by a personal friend of mine. He played the bagpipes at the funeral, by the way. This is how you handle Westboro folks...or any other idiots of their ilk.
"A quick update on the funeral I piped today for SSGT Jason Rogers, the Marine who was KIA in Afghanistan last week. There were several thousand people who showed up to pay their respects to this fallen hero. The Marines even sent a detachment all the way from Camp LeJeune, NC to serve as a special honor guard. The Marine Corps Chaplain was there to deliver the eulogy and conduct the graveside services. There were well over 100 military personnel there to handle every detail. It lent a new meaning to Full Military Honors.
There were also several hundred Patriot Guard Riders there to act as a buffer between the mourners and the scumbags from Westboro "Baptist" Church.
The nutcases from Westboro were prevented from entering the grounds of Pinelake Baptist Church, where the funeral service was held, as the church is considered private property. So we were braced for them at the cemetery.
However, a funny thing happened to them on their way to the cemetery. I was told that they had gathered at a vacant lot next to the Taco Bell in downtown Brandon to get organized, pass out their filthy signs, etc. However, someone notified the owner of the vacant lot, who promptly called the police and pressed charges against them for trespassing. The police came and placed all of them under arrest, and hauled them down to the station.
However, since almost all of the Brandon Police Department was tied up with traffic control and escort duties for the funeral, there was no one available to interview the detainees, so they were forced to wait until an officer came back to the station-- AFTER the graveside services. I noticed that there were several Brandon police cruisers hanging around the cemetery until everyone had safely left the site. It took over an hour to empty the cemetery of all the cars. The news media estimated the crowd at the cemetery at over 3000.
Those idiots should have had more sense than to mess with Mississippi rednecks."
AMEN.
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