Saturday, July 23, 2005
No Relation -- Thankfully!
From FOXNews yesterday
They call themselves the "Tucson Raging Grannies" and range in age from 65 to 81. And despite being decades older than the maximum age for recruits, they're upset because they can't enlist in the Army.She obviously married the name -- no person with actual Schroeder blood would be this publicly foolish.
Five members of the group are fighting trespassing charges after they were cited at a protest here last week at the military recruitment center.
The group has protested on Wednesdays for the last three years outside the recruitment center.
But on July 13, five grannies went inside to try to enlist and were cited.
"We went in asking to be sent to Iraq so our kids and grandchildren can be sent home, but rather than listening to us, they called the police," said 74-year-old Betty Schroeder. "It was their place to tell us the qualifications, but they wouldn't even speak to us. They should've said, `You're too old.'"
