The American Legion recently appealed the Bladensburg Cross case to the Supreme Court in an effort to save a World War I memorial. Earlier, the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Fourth Circuit declared that the cross shape of the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial in Prince George's County, Md., violates the First Amendment. The memorial was erected in 1925 by local Gold Star mothers and the local American Legion post. A copy of the petition to the U.S. Supreme Court is available on FirstLiberty.org. To learn more about the history of the Bladensburg World War I Memorial and to sign the petition to let it stand, visit FirstLiberty.org. For more information about the case, read the Burn Pit.
For more military history features and articles, visit Military.com's History Center.
