Thanks for sharing this story and video Dave. As a participant in the Wall of Red, and an anti-war activist, I just want to point out one problem in your video presentation. In the video you state, mistakenly, I believe, that the WBC folks were here to protest the Afghan War.

From everything I've seen of their position, they are not demonstrating to oppose U.S. wars, but rather to convey to people their sense that American troops are dying in places like Afghanistan or Iraq because "God Hates America." And God hates our country, they believe, not because of our illegal and immoral wars, but rather due to our embrace of homosexuality.

This may seem like a minor point, but, as someone who is opposed to, and organizing to end, the longest war in our nation's history, I'd like to draw as sharp a line as possible between us in the peace camp and the crazies of WBC. We see fallen soldiers as unfortunate victims of this tragic war, and, of course, would have absolutely no reason or desire to protest at their funerals.

I will also add that there were quite a few of us from the anti-war community present yesterday as part of the Wall of Red.

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