PROTEST AT FUNERAL OF U.S. SERVICEMAN
A protester with the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KS, chants as the funeral procession for U.S. Army Pvt. Peter Navarro pulls up to the St. Clare of Assisi Catholic Church in Ellisville, Mo on December 23, 2005. The group led by the Pastor Fred Phelps. protests at the funerals of U.S. servicemen and women claiming that God is punishing those that fight in the Iraq war. Navarro was killed by a roadside bomb on December 13 in Iraq. (UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt)
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