JB was the bagpiper at the funeral. He's a member of the Father of Waters, Mississippi's bagpipe band. FYI...Jack

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.

Those Westboro folks might want to count themselves lucky that they were arrested and didn't make it to the funeral. More often than not, those rednecks like to kill their own snakes.

Mississippi rednecks.[/QUOTE]

....NOT "rednecks"....rather, GOOD people trying to uphold honor.

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Originally posted by conifer:
Mississippi rednecks.

....NOT "rednecks"....rather, GOOD people trying to uphold honor.[/QUOTE]


We do a lot of things right in Mississippi and this was one of them. Redneck and good people are not always mutally exclusive.

RIP SGT. Rogers

some day SOON I hope someone will open the whole can of whop ass on those who disrespect our service men and there family's and I hope I'm there to offer assistance

RIP SGT Rogers

Let me get this straight. The SCOTUS has rule that burning the FLAG is protected under the 1st Ammendment( freedom of speech). Can't we use our 'freedom of speech' to beat the shit out of the westboro assholes? After all it's just freedom of speech. We would just be 'expressing' ourselves!

You'd think so but, unfortunatly at times, your right to swing your fist ends right before it reaches the other fellow's nose.