Bank of quotAmericaquot Removes Flags Honoring This Marine

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Only the faint sound of lightly marching feet could be heard as hundreds stood silent on the Greenville-Spartanburg International tarmac Wednesday while fully adorned Marines carried Lance Cpl. Chris Fowlkes flag-draped coffin. • • The solemn arrival began an afternoon-long procession that ultimately wound through the streets of the 20-year-old Marines hometown of Gaffney, where businesses shut down and mourners lined the streets. • • The homecoming came six days after the former Gaffney High School football player died in a military hospital in Germany from injuries sustained a week earlier in an explosion in the Helman province of Afghanistan. • • Well-wishers waved flags, saluted and shed tears as an army of police cars escorted Fowlkes family along the 40-mile stretch from the airport to the town. • • http://www.captainsjournal.com/2009/0... • • Lance Corporal Chris Fowlkes was a popular and well known young man in Gaffney, and a brave warrior who gave his life in the service of his country. It was seemingly a very heart-felt and patriotic funeral procession. But all was not well in Gaffney, S.C. • • http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2009/09/... • • A South Carolina Bank of America branch is drawing criticism Thursday after an employee reportedly ordered the removal of American flags placed to honor a fallen Marine over fears that people would be offended. • • The Palmetto Scoop received one eyewitness email claiming that the branch manager at Bank of Americas Gaffney branch at 1602 West Floyd Baker Blvd. told a citizen who was preparing the route for a U.S. Marine killed in action in Afghanistan by placing small American flags along the roadway that the flags might upset some of her customers. • • Said the outraged tipster, [The branch manager] took them down and made the citizen go in to get them if she didnt want them thrown away. • • The flags were part of the funeral procession of Lance Corporal Christopher Fowlkes, 20, who died last week after an explosion in Afghanistans Helmand province.

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