June 28, 2005

A Soldier They Called "Pipes"

  Funeral Christopher Piper

Army Staff Sgt Christopher Piper, a Green Beret, who was killed in an Afghanistan bombing was laid to rest yesterday in Marblehead, MA. 

This photo of his son also named Christopher Piper doesn't show the Governor and the Senator who were two among the throng of several thousand that turned out to pay their last respects.    It also doesn't show the signs of the hate group from the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas saying "Thank God for dead soldiers"  and "Fag body bags"

The Boston Herald reports in Love Trumps Hate in Marblehead
They were surrounded by dozens of uniformed and plainclothes cops and blocked from the public by the Boston Police Department Mounted Unit, which strategically pointed the backs of their horses toward the group.

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Shunning the twisted rhetoric of a Kansas hate group, the town of Marblehead turned out yesterday to honor a fallen Green Beret in an outpouring of sympathy and patriotism not seen in decades in the historic seaside community.

With the thanks of a grateful nation, Requiscat in pace.

Posted by Jill Fallon at June 28, 2005 1:17 PM | Permalink