Pregnant widow of PFC must deal with scum

UPDATE: Seems these flags were used to light up the car, but not as a political statement. Just plain stupidity. I stand corrected.

I’m sorry, I don’t use the word scum often, so if I am using it now, you know it is not being used lightly. There are no words:

FAIRFIELD – American flags, lining the lawn of the mother- and father-in-law of fallen U.S. Army Pfc. Timothy Hines Jr., were heaped in a pile early Saturday and burned under a car parked in front of the home – less than 24 hours after Hines was buried in Cincinnati’s Spring Grove Cemetery.
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The flames totaled Sara Wessel’s car.

Sara is Hines’ sister-in-law and Jim Wessel’s oldest daughter. She had been staying at the house on Sando Drive since the family returned last week from Washington, D.C., where they were visiting Hines at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Hines, 21, was buried Friday…with full military honors, leaving behind a pregnant widow who expects to give birth in about two weeks and a 2-year-old daughter. Hines died last week from injuries suffered when a roadside bomb exploded June 19 in Baghdad.

“Whoever set the fire used about 20 flags that were given to me by friends,” Jim Wessel said. “If it wasn’t random vandalism, what statement were they trying to make?”

The 20 flags were replaced with more than 200 by Saturday afternoon. The flags came from family, friends and neighbors.

“What happened to this family is a tragedy; what occurred (Saturday) morning is despicable,” Fairfield Police Chief Mike Dickey said in a prepared statement. “We will take every step to identify the persons responsible and hold them accountable.”

Donations can be made to the Timothy Hines Memorial Fund at any Fifth Third Bank, or to the Hines Family House project through Impact A Hero. Information about that program can be found online at www.impactahero.com.

I’m so angry, and so hurt for this young widow. Whoever did this has completely lost touch with their own humanity. They have become a sub-creature of some sort.

H/T Instapundit.

MORE SCUM UPDATE: This is pretty unbelievable, too. The freaking Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania showed up at a military funeral, uninvited, passed around her card and said to the grieving family of Marine Sgt. Joseph Goodrich, “our government is against the war…”

Can Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll be impeached for utter classlessness, cluelessness and jaw-dropping stupidity? And they call President Bush a moron? This idiot doesn’t understand what is at stake, clearly…and she, too, seems to have lost touch with her humanity. Blackfive has more and you can contact PA Gov. Ed Rendell here. Michelle Malkin has more, including the fact that this Lt. Gov “could not be reached for comment” because she is “traveling.” I guess she doesn’t understand cell phones, either.