- Thats why, in pictures and indelible words of bravery from a family thats paid the price for real, instead of lip service and self serving theories, America will never succumb to our enemies from without OR from within. An treasure of a post for this memorial day of tribute to all our courageous brave sons and daughters.

- Bang

President Bush, marking Memorial Day with a speech paying tribute to fighting men and women lost in war, signed into law Monday a bill that keeps demonstrators from disrupting military funerals.

In advance of his speech and a wreath-laying at America’s most hallowed burial ground for military heroes, Bush signed the “Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act.” This was largely in response to the activities of a Kansas church group that has staged protests at military funerals around the country, claiming the deaths symbolized God’s anger at U.S. tolerance of homosexuals.

The new law bars protests within 300 feet of the entrance of a national cemetery and within 150 feet of a road into the cemetery. This restriction applies an hour before until an hour after a funeral. Those violating the act would face up to a $100,000 fine and up to a year in prison.

Monday’s observance at Arlington National Cemetery was not a funeral, so demonstrators were free to speak their minds at the site.

And several did.

Approximately 10 people from the Washington, D.C., chapter of FreeRepublic.com, a self-styled grass roots conservative group, held signs at the entrance of the cemetery supporting U.S. troops. A large sign held by several people said, “God bless our troops, defenders of freedom, American heroes.”

They were faced off against a handful of anti-gay protesters who stood across a four-lane highway as people headed toward the national burial grounds.

The FreeRepublic.com group was trying to counter demonstrations by the Kansas-based group, led by the Rev. Fred Phelps. He previously had organized protests against those who died of AIDS and gay murder victim Matthew Shepard.

In an interview at the time the House passed the bill that Bush signed Monday, Phelps charged that Congress was “blatantly violating” his First Amendment rights. He said that if became law, he would continue to demonstrate but would abide by the law’s restrictions.

Bush signed a second bill Monday that allows combat troops to deposit tax-free pay into individual retirement accounts. Supporters of the legislation argued that rules governing these accounts were punishing soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq who earn only tax-free combat pay.

- Bang

“No one wants any soldier to die, but be proud. The United States is a liberator.”

I had the honor and privilige of working beside the heroes of our military and regardless of what happened to me, I would not trade that experience for anything in the world.

May God Bless all of our men and women of our military, past and present.

Thank you to all those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice around the globe.

- Today, after having partially recovered sufficiently to move the bod again, my son and I took a drive out to Point Loma, to the National WWII Memorial Cemetary, where some 50,000+ small white crosses line a half mile of green grasslands on both sides of the peninsula in long 1000 cross rows layed end to end, and placed American flags on several gravesites. They had an honor guard, and gun salute for the soldiers/sailors/marines/airman lost in the war. It was a typical brilliant, azure sky, gorgeous ocean, sunlit, postcard day, with gentle sea breezes, and 71 degree weather for the occassion.

- We also stopped by the cross on Soledad Mountain that the Atheists are trying so hard to pull down. A small group of the “non-believers” showed up with protest signs. One guy was yelling, “Christians go home”. I yelled at him “Do you ever stop for a minute to think you couldn’t do this if these people hadn’t died for your sorry ass?”. He just ignored me. They got booed and yelled at so loudly they stayed for just a few minutes and then turned tail and ran off.

- All in all, the whole weekend makes you proud to be an American, knowing so many died so everyone of us, even the idiotarian creeps among us, are free to live our lives in anyway we choose to.

- Bang

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