Monday, January 30, 2012

Two Different Stories

Trooper: Occupy protesters face same arrest risks:
The Occupy Des Moines protesters empty a city park they had been told to leave and return to state property where dozens of people were arrested in October. More arrests are expected about 11 p.m. today.

More than 2,000 U.S. flags lined the streets of Centerville as the southern Iowa town mourned the death of Marine Master Sgt. Travis Riddick.
Riddick, 40, graduated from Centerville High School in 1990. He died in a helicopter crash while serving in Afghanistan on Jan. 19.

Two different stories running side by side on the Des Moines Register website. For some strange reason it hit me right between the eyes. One person gives his life so that others have the 'right' to protest the fact that their lives and civil rights are something one would find in a gulag.

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