We need a law...

Driving my daughter back from her pitching lesson today, we passed by the funeral home across the street from our church. A service was in progress, the wake for a member of our church, an Army Sergeant who was killed in Afghanistan. I didn't know the man, but my heart went out to his family for their loss, and as I passed by I gave a nod and a silent thank you, grateful for the way he had given his life in defense of our freedom. Many people were there, military and civilian. I also noticed a group of Freedom Riders standing just outside the door. It made me angry.

Here's why: I certainly wasn't angry with the Freedom Riders. I think it's incredible that they devote their time and effort to the fallen, and God bless them all. What made me angry was the fact that they even had to be there.

Now, no one in my neck of the woods is stupid enough to protest a military funeral. Right or Left, that's something you just don't do, unless you want to be eating through a tube for the next month. So I'm sure the riders were just there for support. But why, in the name of Heaven, do they ever have to be anywhere to fend off protesters so a family can grieve in peace? What kind of ignorant, ungrateful son of a bitch would stand up to cast dispersions at someone who gave their very life to protect that right? I know, that seems a rhetorical question, but let's put aside logic for a second and think from the heart. Do these people just not realize that they can do the insensitive and dick-headed things they do because of the soldiers they mock? It's beyond me.

So, seeing as how Hussein wants a law to cover every aspect of our lives, I've got one for him:

Any person who protests or disrupts in any way a military funeral should be subject to a $25,000 fine and six months in jail.

Maybe that would give them the time to sort out right from wrong a little bit better.

God Bless all the men and women who put their lives on the line for my right to offer these opinions. They will never get anything but respect here.