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BUDDY POPPIES: PANHANDLING? SAY IT AIN'T SO!

Posted at 01:13 PM on Sunday, November 30, 2008 by Wisconsin VFW News

'Buddy Poppies' subject of latest First Amendment battle

     The Rutherford Institute is 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 .....

     Read on ...See News Video

Story Alert from D. Yatalese, Greenwood Memorial Post 987, Baraboo

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