Westboro Group's hate defeated by love for fallen soldier

According to this report Westboro Group (I won't dignify them by calling them a church) was going to protest at this funeral. The family and other mourners were wrapped in an enormous group of strangers who came out to show their love. Hate is always defeated by love.

Hundreds of mourners pay respects to Bordentown soldier killed in Afghanistan
Published: Saturday, January 22, 2011
By Matt Fair/The Times


BORDENTOWN CITY — Hundreds of mourners – an assemblage of family and friends alongside representatives from police departments, fire companies, emergency medical squads and veterans groups from across New Jersey – gathered this morning to pay their last respects to a Bordentown City soldier who died in combat in Afghanistan last week.
U.S. Army Spec. Benjamin Moore, 23, died Jan. 12 after his unit was attacked with an improvised explosive device. Two other soldiers were also killed in the incident.
Moore, a native of Bordentown City, was also a volunteer firefighter and certified EMT with Hope Hose Human Co.

Protesters from the fringe Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group which has made a habit of picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in action, had said earlier this week they would be in attendance.
At the end of the day, despite authorities setting up a staging area well out of sight from the graveside service, no protesters from the group made an appearance. read more here
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