A fundamentalist church?s protest at the Westminster funeral of a fallen Marine plunged the Marine?s father into severe depression, disrupted his grieving and eroded his physical health, experts testified Tuesday.

Albert Snyder, father of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq in March 2006, has continued to mentally relive his son?s funeral, at which members of Westboro Baptist Church picketed with signs reading, “God hates fags” and “Thank God for dead soldiers.”