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If I were wearing a hat I'd take it off to the people of Weston Missouri. Weston is a town of 2,000, yet last Saturday hundreds of town's people showed up for the funeral of Sgt. First Class C.J. Sadell, who was killed last month in Afghanistan.
I live in a small town and one of the times when I am most proud of my community is when we come together to honor one of ours who has passed. People pull over and stop when the funeral procession passes. Friends, associates, and neighbors come together to let the family know they care. It is common for the grieving family to receive more food from neighbors than will fit in their refrigerator. But the gathering of people in this heart-of-America community was beyond that.
News had come that Fred Phelps and his, so called, Westboro Baptist Church, were coming to hold one of their despicable protests at Sgt. Sadell's funeral. The good people of Weston weren't going to wait for the Supreme Court to decide whether what Phelps and his ilk are doing is legal. They said, in essence, "This is our son. He gave his life in service to our nation and these creeps are not going to keep our neighbors from burying their loved one with the honor he deserves."
The picture above came from a KHQA news story (http://www.connecttristates.com/news/story.aspx?id=537382). It's worth watching the ad that precedes the short video to see the account of small-town America doing good.
I live in a small town and one of the times when I am most proud of my community is when we come together to honor one of ours who has passed. People pull over and stop when the funeral procession passes. Friends, associates, and neighbors come together to let the family know they care. It is common for the grieving family to receive more food from neighbors than will fit in their refrigerator. But the gathering of people in this heart-of-America community was beyond that.
News had come that Fred Phelps and his, so called, Westboro Baptist Church, were coming to hold one of their despicable protests at Sgt. Sadell's funeral. The good people of Weston weren't going to wait for the Supreme Court to decide whether what Phelps and his ilk are doing is legal. They said, in essence, "This is our son. He gave his life in service to our nation and these creeps are not going to keep our neighbors from burying their loved one with the honor he deserves."
The picture above came from a KHQA news story (http://www.connecttristates.com/news/story.aspx?id=537382). It's worth watching the ad that precedes the short video to see the account of small-town America doing good.
Here is the conclusion to Lindsey Boetsch's story: "Westboro Church members disappeared."
Lead on Weston!
It's STTA.
A lady who teaches at Military base school, commented:
ReplyDelete"What a great response from that community! Just the simple calm message, "You can't sell your hatred here. We take care of our own."