grieving families suffer anti-war insensitivity

- the family of a fallen US soldier suffered an act of vandalism less than 24 hours after burying US Army Pfc Timothy Hines Jr. 20 US flags given to the family were placed in a pile under a car and burned.

"Whoever set the fire used about 20 flags that were given to me by friends," Jim Wessel said. "If it wasn't random vandalism, what statement were they trying to make?"
The 20 flags were replaced with more than 200 by Saturday afternoon. The flags came from family, friends and neighbors.

- meanwhile, pennsylvania governor is in damage control mode after the actions of his loopy lieutenant governor Catherine Baker Knoll this weekend. she apparently invited herself to the funeral of Marine Staff Sgt Joseph Goodrich. once there, knoll seemingly bragged that she "attends 90 percent of these 'functions' across the state", continuing with the remark that "the (state) government was against the war"
sister-in-law rhonda goodrich was understandably upset

"This was not a 'function'....A function is a dinner or an awards ceremony. This was my brother-in-law's funeral."