LITE 98.7 » military families http://lite987.com The Best Variety Of Yesterday And Today Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:27:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Hundreds of Students Defend Military Funeral Against the Westboro Baptist Church http://lite987.com/students-military-funeral-westboro-baptist-church/ http://lite987.com/students-military-funeral-westboro-baptist-church/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:13:15 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=136418 When the Westboro Baptist Church announced their intention to target the funeral of Texas A&M alum Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale, his fellow Aggies didn’t take it sitting down.

In fact, with a little help of Facebook, more than 500 students at Texas A&M showed up at the burial in College Park, Texas.

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