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07-08-2012, 09:40 PM
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| Kudos to the students of Texas A & M
Texas A&M Students Form Human Wall To Block Westboro Baptist Church Protestors From Soldier Roy Tisdale's Funeral (PHOTOS)
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for it. But this story has been posted in various threads on the site. It deserves a spot of it's own, IMO. We can move to the politics forum if a discussion takes that route.
But I would personally like to say I am thankful these students were able to offer a kind of comfort to the family of this soldier. Well done.
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07-08-2012, 09:55 PM
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| A Marine from our my hometown got killed in action about a year ago and when they brought his body home to be buried, either this group or a group like this kept saying they were going to protest. They ended getting blocked somehow or just not a lot of them showed up but I heard that the same group had tried something like this in Mississippi and Tractor trailers got "accidently" parked in front of their hotel enter and exits.
Good to hear and like you said, kudos. | 
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07-08-2012, 10:02 PM
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07-08-2012, 10:31 PM
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| We had four teenage girls die in a car crash four years ago, the Westboro church claimed they would show to protest the funeral because they said it was punishment for their horrible lifestyles.
Three old ladies who seemed to be over 70 years old showed up. And did nothing. They seem to be much more known for their bark than bite these days.
Definitely like seeing the A&M kids show respect like that though. | |
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07-08-2012, 10:32 PM
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| Kudos indeed.
WBC is nothing more than a family cult...there's a special place in hell waiting for them. | |
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07-08-2012, 11:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Lawrence Wright  Kudos indeed.
WBC is nothing more than a family cult...there's a special place in hell waiting for them. | Trolls of religion. | |
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07-09-2012, 01:41 AM
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| A solider was killed in my hometown about a year ago now and they said they would show. Needless to say several local MC's derailed that plan.
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07-09-2012, 09:30 AM
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| Amazing! Good for you A&M. WBC makes me sick. I forget what talk show they were on but it caught my eye when I was flipping channels and they are seriously disturbed. A motorcycle gang did something similar to this I believe when they tried to protest somewhere else.
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07-09-2012, 09:48 AM
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| More than makes up for that cheesy video that they made for coming to the SEC. | |
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07-09-2012, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Lawrence Wright Kudos indeed.
WBC is nothing more than a family cult...there's a special place in hell waiting for them. | Your exactly right. The entire church is one family of nuts. Wish they didn't use the baptist name. | |
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07-09-2012, 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by give_him 6 Your exactly right. The entire church is one family of nuts. Wish they didn't use the baptist name. | Or the Phelps name for that matter and the poor folks that share the common last name as those people. | |
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07-09-2012, 11:15 AM
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| Nice job by the Aggies. Sad that their efforts are getting more press than the man who was killed. Roy was a leader in the 1-509th, the dreaded OPFOR at Fort Polk, while I was there. He was a good man who will be missed by his family and friends. RIP | |
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07-09-2012, 11:41 AM
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| Ditto. One of the coolest stories I've seen in ages. We poke a lot of fun at other member schools of the SEC around here, but at the end of the day, this is what being human is all about. So much bigger than sports. | |
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07-09-2012, 03:59 PM
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| Good for them...I never will understand why someone would want to protest at someone's funeral....that would be the ultimate insult imo... | |
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07-09-2012, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by AJeray4TN Ditto. One of the coolest stories I've seen in ages. We poke a lot of fun at other member schools of the SEC around here, but at the end of the day, this is what being human is all about. So much bigger than sports. | I both agree and disagree with this.
Sport is the only thing I know of in the world that can transcend everything. Sex, Religion, Race, Class, all of it. I've seen white Buddhist twenty year old college dropouts hugging 35 year old black Christian mothers because of football games.
And in most of the world Soccer is an even bigger deal, and unites and divides like nothing we can imagine here in america.
If you told me I had to unite a city divided by.... any conflict almost, I would use sports to do it. | |
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