IS IT OFFENSIVE TO PUT UP SIGNS WELCOMING HOME YOUR DAUGHTER FROM IRAQ???

I have a hard time wrapping my head around this one! We should be thanking each and every member of the military for their service to our country...instead stuff like this is happening.

Recently, Lauren Boitet returned home to Orange Park, Florida (--in the northern part of the state, just south of Jacksonville), after finishing a 15-month tour of duty in Iraq.

So, to welcome Lauren home, her family decided to put up a few signs, balloons, flags and other decorations. Fair enough, right?

But shortly after the Boitets put up the decorations, they were taken down . . . by members of the homeowners association. Why?

Because according to the Pace Island Homeowner Association handbook, decorations of any kind . . . are against the rules.

And even though other members of the association have been allowed to put up decorations in the past . . . certain members of the homeowners association were worried the decorations would be seen as an endorsement of the war in Iraq.

To make sure that didn't happen . . . the decorations were taken down.