Ooops, got the names backwards. The memorial service was for Andrew Velez. Andrew's brother, Freddy, was killed in action November 2004 while serving in Iraq. Andrew died in Afghanistan in July.
The Kook Squad (aka as the Westboro Baptist Church or, more precisely, the family of the "reverend" Fred Phelps) was on hand to protest with their "God Hates Fags" and "Thank God for another dead soldier" signs. I got a good long look at them - they are, well... there's really no other way to describe them except to say that they are extremely strange.
Brad