National Memorial Status Sought for Cross
From Times Wire Reports
A Michigan-based law center has started a national petition drive to obtain memorial status for a 43-foot cross posted on city parkland in San Diego.
The Thomas More Law Center began that effort Thursday to urge federal officials to deem the Mt. Soledad Veterans War Memorial a national memorial.
San Diego voters defeated a ballot proposition this month that would have allowed the city to auction off the land and charge the purchaser with determining the fate of the cross.
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