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So...I'm at Omaha's Mermorial Park, representing my American Legion post at the ceremonies today, when some Amnesty International yahoo, dressed in a thrift store suit, tries to shout down the MC. About a half dozen Legion Riders (You know...the guys who stand between servicemen's funerals and those a-holes from Westboro Baptist Church?) physically pick him up and carry him off, kicking and screaming, up and over the hill behind a the WWII monument. The MC, a local news weatherman who is also a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves, never misses a single beat. While it was funny watching the protection staff for Senator's Nelson and Johanns, Congressman Terry, Governor Heineman and Mayor Suttle scrambling around, yet doing nothing, while the Legion Riders took care of it. The funniest part was when the guy just suddenly, and very noticably, got quiet after they took him over the hill. The rest of the ceremony went off without a hitch.
So, in addition to my annual thanking of the veterans, I would also like to send a special thank you to all members of the American Legion Riders.
Oh, and for those of you that may actually give a shit, the protestor is fine. I saw him as I was leaving, talking to mounted members of the Omaha Police. They were, as you may have guessed, decidedly unsympathetic to his complaints of the trampling of his constitutional rights.
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony
"Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus
It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.
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