I Know There Is A Special Place

For the people of the Westboro cult (they are not Baptists). They have announced plans to picket the funerals of the two murdered soldiers.

REDMOND, Ore. – A community memorial service for Pfc. Thomas Tucker of Madras, one of two soldiers brutally murdered in Iraq, will be held in Redmond on Saturday, July 1.

Tucker, along with Pfc. Kristian Menchaca of Texas, disappeared last Friday after a firefight with insurgents at a canal crossing checkpoint in Iraq.

Troops stationed a short distance away heard an explosion and small arms fire. When they arrived, they found one soldier dead and Tucker and Menchaca missing.

The soldiers' bodies, which showed signs of torture, were found three days later, booby-trapped near an electrical plant just three miles from where they had been captured.

The U.S. military has launched an investigation to determine why their vehicle was the only one outside a fortified Army camp.

As for the memorial service, it is scheduled to be held Saturday, July 1 at the following location:

Deschutes County Fairgrounds Expo Center
3800 S.W. Airport Way
Redmond, Oregon

The memorial service at the Expo Center will be open to the public. A private internment, which is not open to the public, will follow at the Mt. Jefferson Memorial Park Cemetery in Madras.

A small group of people from the Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka, Kansas have announced their plans to picket the funerals of both Tucker and Menchaca. Members of the church have picketed several soldier funerals in the past.

To the people of the Westboro cult: you have no decency, you have no humanity and you have no place in the Heaven you think you think you are bound for. You enjoy the freedom to be what you are because of people, much better people than you all are, who you see fit to degrade and abuse. You choose to inflict pain on the families of your betters.

And they are far, far better than you could ever dream to be. For they stood to protect the rights of even such as you.

Please, if you live in Redmond, or are close enough to get there, go to the service. Please show the families that these people do not represent America. And please bring along a flag.