When students heard that Westboro Baptist Church planned on protesting the funeral of a soldier, they formed a human barricade around the funeral service to block them out. On June 28, Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale, a Texas A&M alum, was killed during a training exercise at Fort Bragg by another solder who then shot himself. The Westboro Baptist Church, known for protesting soldier's funerals with anti-gay messages, posted plans to show up at Tisdale's funeral on their website. A fellow "Aggie", Ryan Slezia, came up with a plan to create a human wall to block any protesters from getting near the funeral, and invited fellow Texas A&M students and alum to join. One participant tweeted that over 650 people showed up in maroon shirts to create a "maroon wall". It appears that the Westboro protestors never showed up. Pics:http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/texas-am-students-block-westboro-baptist-prot
The kids that make it through college in one peice are the ones that can resist the brainwashing from the mostly liberal professors and see things from an a rational perspective. One of the biggest purveyor of hate in this country is academia.
This is TEXAS A&M we're talking about, not Harvard or Berkeley. Way to go, Aggies! Several of my cousins are A&M alumni!
