{"id":3907,"date":"2011-04-27T04:28:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T04:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2011-04-27T04:28:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T04:28:09","slug":"this-story-made-my-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3907","title":{"rendered":"This Story Made My Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the respected\u00a0gents at <strong>BLACKFIVE<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2011\/04\/westboro-baptists-defeated.html#tp\"><strong>Westboro Baptists Defeated<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/.a\/6a00d8341bfadb53ef014e87ff12e2970d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/.a\/6a00d8341bfadb53ef014e87ff12e2970d-320wi\" alt=\"SSgt-Jason-Rogers-278x300\" title=\"SSgt-Jason-Rogers-278x300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/vicksburgdailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SSgt-Jason-Rogers-278x300.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/vicksburgdailynews.com\/2011\/04\/14\/westboro-baptist-church-to-protest-military-funeral-in-brandon-on-saturday\/&amp;usg=__jE2VVOuKEVr-4H6Ov0Jmwppgtd0=&amp;h=300&amp;w=278&amp;sz=15&amp;hl=en&amp;start=5&amp;zoom=1&amp;itbs=1&amp;tbnid=UNnwZHtosu5oOM:&amp;tbnh=116&amp;tbnw=107&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dsgt%2Bjason%2Brogers%26hl%3Den%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&amp;ei=AaWwTdTdEcXs0gGPy-2GCQ\"><strong>USMC Staff Sgt. Jason Rogers<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 28,\u00a0was killed in action by an IED\u00a0while saving a fellow Marine\u00a0in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on April 7.\u00a0 Sgt. Rogers was assigned to the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C.\u00a0 This was his fifth combat tour in Afghanistan.\u00a0 His fifth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;.Sgt. Rogers was buried in Brandon, Mississippi last Saturday.\u00a0 Above is the view of Mississippi Highway Patrol\u00a0Trooper Elmo Townsend\u00a0as he\u00a0escorted Sgt. Rogers\u00a0from Airport Road and along U.S. 80 through a gauntlet of hundreds of local patriots who turned out to honor his sacrifice.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The human vermin of the Phelps family, venomous traitors who style themselves the Westboro Baptist Church,\u00a0who insult decent people from coast to coast by shouting vile slander at the funerals of heroes, threatened to protest this funeral as well.\u00a0 Yet, not a whiff of their stench\u00a0fouled the air\u00a0anywhere near the procession nor funeral.\u00a0 Therein lies the story&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2011\/04\/westboro-baptists-defeated.html#tp\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are old enough to have ever lived under &#8220;old school&#8221; rules, you will love this story. More of this, please\u00a0(Hat tip to <strong>Alyson the Good<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the respected\u00a0gents at BLACKFIVE: Westboro Baptists Defeated USMC Staff Sgt. Jason Rogers, 28,\u00a0was killed in action by an IED\u00a0while saving a fellow Marine\u00a0in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on April 7.\u00a0 Sgt. Rogers was assigned to the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C.\u00a0 This was his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,215,362,483,616,39,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-culture","category-deterrence","category-extremists","category-memoriam","category-military","category-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}