So called "Church Members" attempt to spread Hate of Amerian Soldiers

By CHRIS INGALLS / KING 5 News
Westboro Church members try to preach their hatred of gays and the military at a memorial service for Sgt. First Class Johnny Walls. PORT ORCHARD, Wash. – Members from a controversial Kansas church were in Western Washington Friday. They tried to disrupt a memorial service for a Bremerton soldier who was killed in combat. But counter-protestors kept them at bay.
A war of words erupted on a Port Orchard street Friday afternoon as five members of the Westboro Church preached their hatred of gays and the U.S. military. They shouted insults and carried signs.
A couple hundred counter protestors shouted down the church members – including one child – who were escorted by sheriff's deputies.
The church members say God is killing soldiers in retaliation for America's tolerance of homosexuality. They have appeared at military funerals across the country, and Friday, they were a block away from a memorial service for Sgt. First Class Johnny Walls.

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Republican audience booing 43-year military veteran becayse he is GAY

Can't we all play nice? I mean come on guys and girls! Here is is 2007, almost 2008 in the Christmas Season and all our Republicans can do is sit and plant people to boo a man that has spent 43 years of his life serving you, me and all of our country????? That's not nice, looks like you will be gettin' coal in your stocking!!! (Hope Santa doesn't have a gay helper when he gets to your place)!

Here's the full story which I found on Daily KOS:

CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Gen. Kerr, who was in the audience for the event, whether he was satisfied with the responses. Not surprisingly, he wasn’t.

“With all due respect, I did not get an answer from the candidates,” Kerr said, adding, “We’re talking about doctors, nurses, pilots, and the surgeon who sews somebody up when they’re taken from the battlefield.”
At which point, the Republican audience began booing the 43-year military veteran. It was an interesting contrast — at Democratic debates, veterans get standing ovations. At Republican debates, veterans get booed if they’re gay.

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Bellevue soldier dies on Thanksgiving

Friday November 23 2007, 6:34am
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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jon Martin of Bellevue lost his battle to live on Thanksgiving Day.
Martin, 33, was injured when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb Nov. 9 while serving his third tour in Iraq. He suffered critical injuries from the blast that left him in a medically-induced coma in a German hospital while surgeons attempted to repair the damage.
Martin, a platoon leader for the 101st Airborne Division based in Fort Campbell, Ky., worked in air assault. He returned for his third tour in Iraq, despite getting wounded while serving his second tour. He received a Purple Heart after a roadside bomb injured the tendons in one arm.

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US Military in Iraq Searches for Militants Believed Linked to Soldiers' Kidnapping

U.S. soldiers dig during a search for the bodies of two soldiers in the town of Awesat, south of Baghdad, 16 Nov 2007The U.S. military says it launched pre-dawn raids south of Baghdad Friday to hunt for militants believed to be linked to the kidnapping of two American soldiers.
The military says helicopters dropped 600 soldiers into the villages of Owesap and Betra, while warplanes dropped two bombs to block possible escape routes. Some 150 Iraqi soldiers also took part in the operation.

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2007 Is Deadliest Year for U.S. Troops in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Nov. 6 — Six American soldiers were killed in three separate attacks in Iraq on Monday, the military said Tuesday, taking the number of deaths this year to 852. The toll makes 2007 the deadliest year of the war for United States troops.

Military officials announced the discovery of a mass grave holding 22 bodies in a rural area north of Falluja. They also said that nine Iranians being held in Iraq would soon be released, including two of the five who were detained during a January raid of a consulate office in Erbil.
Five of the American soldiers died in two roadside bomb attacks on Monday near Kirkuk, said Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, director of the communications division of the Multinational Force-Iraq, the formal name for the United States-led forces.

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