Westboro Baptist Church Comes to Texas

Like I had mentioned in my post yesterday Westboro Baptist Church came to Killeen, Tx to protest the military. I decided I would go and see how the people of the military and the the town of Killeen were going to react to these people. Back home in Topeka where they are from, people have just kinda learned how to ignore them. Maybe that's why they feel the need to take their show on the road to get attention somewhere somehow(So sad). I really didn't know what to expect but when I got there it was complete craziness, there were people protesting against them everywhere!! I really didn't expect that many people. As soon as I got out of my car I could here chants of, "USA!! USA!! This immediately brought tears to my eyes (I am such a baby). But something about seeing all these people supporting our soldiers gave me a sense of pride! I started to make my way through the crowd and noticed that there were only a handful of WBC members picketing and by the time I got there they weren't holding their signs up and the police were just about to escort them out. As they headed to their cars with police surrounding them the crowd all of a sudden turned and started to follow them (crazy). They were yelling things like, "God loves everyone!", "Don't mess with Texas!!", and "Go back home!!" along with many other things. I was just so amazed by all of this. Once they  got in their cars a whole bunch of motorcycles followed them out!! After they left the chants of  USA did not stop. I talked to one lady and she said that they planned to keep picketing. After I talked to a few more people and took some more pics I headed to my gym which is across the street. I had so much energy from all these people I knew I was gonna have a good workout (I did). On my way out of the gym I wondered if anyone would still be out there. And sure enough the one lady I talked to who said they would be out there for awhile was the only one left with her one sign!! How awesome is that?! 

This guy was going crazy yelling all sorts of
stuff!