Friday, January 27, 2012

Fort Hood soldier chased away by police for "wedding" in public?

Wedding banned from Tarrant County College downtown
Posted Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012

BY BUD KENNEDY
bud@star-telegram.com

We paid $185 million for our new county college on the bluff downtown.

You'd think we'd be welcome there.

No such luck for one would-be bride.

With her Army boyfriend suddenly deployed to Afghanistan, county tax office worker Rosie Enriquez Martinez wanted to use the riverfront overlook at the edge of campus Sunday for a small wedding.

But Tarrant County College police chased them away.

Instead, Rosie and Sgt. Phillip Martinez Jr. of Fort Hood exchanged vows on a windy downtown sidewalk, wondering why he can fight for American freedom in Afghanistan but not peacefully enjoy a public campus downtown.
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