They came from many walks of life, the 49 boys of Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Several were laborers like George Washington Farmer and William Lee—one white, the other African-American. One, Ernest Pendleton Magruder, was a well-known surgeon. Another, Henry Lewis Hulbert, a Medal of Honor recipient of a previous war, would again display such bravery that he would earn a Distinguished Service Cross.
Educated or not, white or black, rich or poor, their diverse backgrounds mattered little as they died on foreign soil in the final months of the “war to end all wars.” Their bodies were interred under small grave makers, including crosses, in cemeteries far too distant for their families to ever visit.
So, in 1925, a local post of The American Legion—now the largest veterans service organization in the country with approximately 2.2 million members—erected the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial to honor the 49 Bladensburg-area men who gave their lives serving in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War I.
But the cross-shape of the monument is too much to bear for some humanists, who have sued to have the memorial deemed unconstitutional.
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5 comments:
This is sickening, outrageous and uncalled for. SCOTUS needs to step up to the plate and stop this PC BS in it's tracks.
They won't be happy unless there is a Mohammed statue up.
I'll give the preface, I am by no means religious. If this is the memorial chosen by the families of the fallen, then why does the feelings or opinion of anyone else have any bearing on the monument, period. If it was erected in good graces, with no apparent opposition, be it on public or private ground, it should remain. As should all of the monuments that have been recently desicrated or removed. If it's the 20 commandments, Masonic emblems, Jewish, Hindu or Islamic, lrt them stay. If you don't like them, don't look at them. It's like complaining about a radio station shock jock, if you don't like it, turn away.
Civil war is long overdue.
One more time; "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..."
So, Question #1, does this cross's existence cause or is caused by any move by Congress to establish a religion on this property?
Question #2; Does demolishing this monument cause or is caused by any move by Congress to prohibit the free exercise of any religion whatsoever?
Then go home and allow the descendants of these brave soldiers keep there rights to life, liberty and their pursuit of happiness and to have their monument to remind all of their sacrifice.
This cross is as Constitutional as a natural born citizen.
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