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Westboro Baptist Picketed Camp Pendleton Marine’s Funeral Today

By Beth Ford Roth / Home Post Blogger
Published June 20, 2011 at 12:50 PM PDT
This story was published more than 13 years ago.
Lance Cpl. Nicholas O’Brien
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Lance Cpl. Nicholas O’Brien

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The Westboro Baptist Church demonstrated at the memorial service today of a Camp Pendleton killed this month in Afghanistan, according to North Carolina television station WCTI. The memorial service for 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Nicholas O’Brien took place in Gastonia, North Carolina, where O’Brien grew up. He will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. (Read more)

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Blogger Beth Ford Roth was born into a military family and has covered issues important to service members and their loved ones for many years. She has worked as a broadcast journalist in both commercial television and public radio.
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