And as if this won't be difficult enough...
Chinook Marine's funeral services to be held Monday
CHINOOK - Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the school gymnasium in Chinook for Jeremy S. Sandvick Monroe, 20, the U.S. Marine killed last weekend in Iraq.
Burial will follow in Darby, about 45 miles east of Chinook, according to his father, Monte Monroe of Darby.
Jeremy Monroe, a lance corporal with the 2/3 Echo Company, 4th Platoon, was one of three Marines killed in action Oct. 8 in the western province of Anbar.
Marines told his father Sunday night that Jeremy Monroe was hit in the head by sniper fire and died instantly.
The family is setting up a memorial fund to help others in Jeremy Monroe's name.
"Jeremy was so musical that we want to help other people who like to play music, maybe provide instruments to people who can't afford to buy them," said Monte Monroe.
"And we'd like to help the people who are needy," he added. "We'd like to be helping those people for years to come."
Donations to the Jeremy S. Monroe Memorial Fund, Account 925329, may be mailed to Box 150, Ravalli County Bank, Hamilton, MT 59480.
His mother, Mellissa Pike, said Friday that she had received a bulletin from the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., announcing their plans to picket the funeral service.
The church, led by the Rev. Fred Phelps, pickets military funerals around the country because its members believe those deaths are punishment for America turning its back on God by refusing to condemn homosexuality.
Earlier this year, the group attended services for Marine Cpl. Phillip Baucus of Wolf Creek.
Pike quoted the group's message to the family: "God Almighty killed Lance Cpl. Monroe. He died in shame, not in honor, for a fag nation cursed by God."
"For a church that's supposed to profess the Bible, that's just sick," Pike said. "That's not human."
Gods curse them! Someone should lob a hand-grenade into those stupid fuckers!
CHINOOK - Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the school gymnasium in Chinook for Jeremy S. Sandvick Monroe, 20, the U.S. Marine killed last weekend in Iraq.
Burial will follow in Darby, about 45 miles east of Chinook, according to his father, Monte Monroe of Darby.
Jeremy Monroe, a lance corporal with the 2/3 Echo Company, 4th Platoon, was one of three Marines killed in action Oct. 8 in the western province of Anbar.
Marines told his father Sunday night that Jeremy Monroe was hit in the head by sniper fire and died instantly.
The family is setting up a memorial fund to help others in Jeremy Monroe's name.
"Jeremy was so musical that we want to help other people who like to play music, maybe provide instruments to people who can't afford to buy them," said Monte Monroe.
"And we'd like to help the people who are needy," he added. "We'd like to be helping those people for years to come."
Donations to the Jeremy S. Monroe Memorial Fund, Account 925329, may be mailed to Box 150, Ravalli County Bank, Hamilton, MT 59480.
His mother, Mellissa Pike, said Friday that she had received a bulletin from the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., announcing their plans to picket the funeral service.
The church, led by the Rev. Fred Phelps, pickets military funerals around the country because its members believe those deaths are punishment for America turning its back on God by refusing to condemn homosexuality.
Earlier this year, the group attended services for Marine Cpl. Phillip Baucus of Wolf Creek.
Pike quoted the group's message to the family: "God Almighty killed Lance Cpl. Monroe. He died in shame, not in honor, for a fag nation cursed by God."
"For a church that's supposed to profess the Bible, that's just sick," Pike said. "That's not human."
Gods curse them! Someone should lob a hand-grenade into those stupid fuckers!