One Picture: The face of war

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Robert Baldwin of Muscatine, Iowa was buried yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery. He was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan last month. This is one of his four children.

What you don’t see in the picture are the protesters from Westboro Baptist Church, who were on their way to the Supreme Court for yesterday’s arguments about whether they have the right to protest at the funerals of soldiers. The church celebrates the deaths of soldiers, saying it’s God’s retribution for American policies toward homosexuals.

Here are the court transcripts of the oral arguments.