OFF THE WIRE
Hello Gentlemen,
My name is Josie Crecco and I do volunteer work for an anti-bullying non-profit called Stand For The Silent, which was co-founded by Kirk Smalley, an anti-bullying activist and public speaker from Oklahoma. He recently concluded a speaking tour of schools all over northeast Nebraska and was contacted by email this afternoon from a young lady from Pierce regarding the funeral of a soldier taking place in Pierce, NE at 9:30 tomorrow at which there will be picketers. I'm not sure of the facts, but Kirk forwarded the email to me to see if I could help and I am forwarding it to you. I know it's late notice and there's probably not much you can do at this point, but I didn't know perhaps if you had connections to bikers in this area that could help out with this.
Thanks and God Bless You for What You Do!!
Josie Crecco
Clarkson, NE
402-439-5106
Begin forwarded message:
From: Kirk Smalley <kirksmalley@yahoo.com>
Date: September 16, 2011 5:31:03 PM CDT
To: Josie Crecco,Kirk Kubik, kass Gina Ring
Subject: Fw: Fallen Soldier
Reply-To: Kirk Smalley if you can help these people please do so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Brittanie Claussen
To: Kirk Smalley Cc:
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 2:59 PM
Subject: Fallen Soldier
Mr Smalley
Tomorrow morning at 9 30 a fallen soldier will be buried in pierce nebraska. His name is Sergeant First Class Christian Reige. There will be picketers at his funeral. They were at his viewing yesterday picketing that god is killing our soldiers because our country has not made laws against gay people. The family of the fallen soldier has asked that the public would step in and line the church and cemetery to protect them from the picketers. My mom wanted me to tell you this because she feels that this is bullying. These people will be bullying the family during one of the hardest times of their lives. We will be going and standing silently for the fallen soldier and his family. We will be standing for the silent and making sure these bullies dont touch this family. I hope that any bullying law that stand for the silent could get passed would help this bullying and the kind that hurts our kids in school. I really hope that we can take a stand against this and make sure that this family and all other families can live in peace.
Thank you so much for reading all my e-mails that i send..and i hope that you will be able to spread the word of this fallen soldier and get the word out that even adults bully..
On Sep 15, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Kirk Smalley wrote:
> We love you right back brittanie. We do hVe a 21 year old daughter. I'm do glad we could inspire you guys to make a difference in our world. With this kind of help I know we can't Lose this fight!
