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BUDDY POPPIES: PANHANDLING? SAY IT AIN'T SO!
Posted at 08:45 PM on Sunday, November 30, 2008 by VFW News
(via Dept of Wisconsin)Attorneys from the Rutherford Institute are defending a disabled vet who distributes "Buddy Poppies."
Institute President John Whitehead is representing disabled Vietnam veteran John Miska who was repeatedly threatened with arrest for distributing the artificial flowers.
..... in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall, by the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam memorial and other places in D.C., [but] he's been continually threatened by the Park Police .....
Story Alert from D. Yatalese, Greenwood Memorial Post 987, Baraboo









