If a 59-year-old Speegleville man had not been arrested Monday night shortly after he reportedly destroyed a roadside memorial to fallen U.S. soldiers near President Bush’s ranch, McLennan County Sheriff Larry Lynch would have known where to find him later this week — in Lynch’s Sunday School class.
Sheriff’s office investigators said Larry Chad Northern drove his pickup truck over hundreds of small wooden crosses bearing the names of soldiers who died in the war that peace activists had placed along Prairie Chapel Road. …
Northern was arrested shortly after 9:30 p.m. Monday after he was spotted changing a tire on his pickup, authorities said. Small white crosses were found stuck in the truck’s undercarriage, according to sheriff’s office reports.
From the Waco Tribune-Herald. Northern is a Vietnam veteran.
Functional Ambivalent has some interesting observations on the war protest at Crawford and President Bush’s reaction — Necessary Inhumanity.