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I coach my son's 5-6 year old baseball team and our end of season tournament was this past saturday in Bells. It also happen to be the same day and location of PFC Christian "Jake" Chandler's funeral service. He was KIA in Afghanistan on April 28th. The Westboro weirdos had made a statement of intent to protest his services. We were at the field for our first game at 9am and there were a handful of American flags hanging around the city. By the time our first game was over there were people putting up full 4x8 sheets of plywood painted as American flags and words of encouragement along the procession route. One unknown gentleman showed up and began talking to my sister who was assisting another woman hang her sign. This gentleman gave her a large sum of money and asked her to travel to the neighboring towns and buy every american flag she can find in stores. My sister was gone for over an hour and returned with 200 something flags. The patriot guard riders were flowing into town in droves and staging across the street from the funeral home. There were also several neighboring police agencies in attendance. Shortly before the procession headed out of town, the boys dropped their bats and gloves where they stood, we passed out the flags, and we lined the street to honor Jake's life, service, and sacrifice. The boys stood for well over an hour in the heat of the afternoon and not once complained about it. One of my baseball boys voiced this prayer as the motorcade turned the corner and came our way, "Dear God, bless the soldier that died for our freedom and thank you for letting me fly my flag today to tell him thanks". There were several patriot guard riders and uniformed service members wiping tears as the exchanged salutes and waves with the boys. Their comprehension of the event was amazing. The photo is of the field showing where the boys just dropped everything. The westboro nuts did show up just long enough to see that small town north Texas is not playing games when it comes to honoring those that serve. They unloaded from their vehicle, saw what they were up against, and loaded right back up and left.

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Great story. Thanks for sharing.

Good job coach!

Wow! Thank you for sharing this amazing story. God bless those kids, God bless America and may God bless Jake and welcome him home.

Thank you for sharing this uplifting story. My heart goes out to the family along with prayers for comfort.

Something must be wrong with your keyboard. Beginning with the young Patriot's prayer, the letters got fuzzy and hard to read.

Thanks for posting that.

Oh my, I must have my eyes checked it was hard to focus on parts of the post. Thank you for sharing!

With your permission I would like to copy it and post it on my FaceBook.. A friend of mine and co-worker was one of the Patriot Guards

Must be a virus on the forum causing the words to blur

Proud of those boys and their parents should be also. They were raised right.

As a member of the Patriot Guard, I have ridden many missions. Some of which a whole town turns out such as this and then there are those that we are the only people there for the soldier. It saddens me when I make a mission and there is no one else there but it truly enlightens my heart when an entire town turns out like they did here.