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Westboro Baptist to picket the funerals of both Tucker and Menchaca
REDMOND, Ore. - A community memorial service for Pfc. Thomas Tucker of Madras, one of two soldiers brutally murdered in Iraq, will be held in Redmond on Saturday, July 1. Tucker, along with Pfc. Kristian Menchaca of Texas, disappeared last Friday after a firefight with insurgents at a canal crossing checkpoint in Iraq.Troops stationed a short distance away heard an explosion and small arms fire. When they arrived, they found one soldier dead and Tucker and Menchaca missing. The soldiers' bodies, which showed signs of torture, were found three days later, booby-trapped near an electrical plant just three miles from where they had been captured. The U.S. military has launched an investigation to determine why their vehicle was the only one outside a fortified Army camp. As for the memorial service, it is scheduled to be held Saturday, July 1 at the following location: Deschutes County Fairgrounds Expo Center 3800 S.W. Airport Way Redmond, Oregon The memorial service at the Expo Center will be open to the public. A private internment, which is not open to the public, will follow at the Mt. Jefferson Memorial Park Cemetery in Madras. A small group of people from the Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka, Kansas have announced their plans to picket the funerals of both Tucker and Menchaca. Members of the church have picketed several soldier funerals in the past. and ..... This is a press release courtesy of the Governor's office Today Governor Theodore R. Kulongoski ordered that all flags at public institutions be flown at half-staff on Monday, June 26, 2006, in memory of Private First Class Thomas L. Tucker of Madras, Oregon. Posted by: Sherry 2006-06-25 |
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