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Save the Coos Bay Oregon Vietnam Veteran Memorial
This is One of the Oldest Vietnam Veteran Memorials in America.
Erected in 1972. A national atheist organization is demanding that an Oregon city remove its Vietnam War memorial because it includes a cross. The Freedom From Religion Foundation accused city leaders in Coos Bay of violating the so-called separation of church and state after erecting the war memorial 41 years ago. The FFRF is a group of freethinkers, atheists and agnostics.
Read more: http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/atheists-want-vietnam-memorial-cross-removed.html
“Records don’t reflect how many complaints or who they were – but they were referred to the Jaycees,” he said. “That’s the group that’s installed it.”
Craddock said city leaders will meet next week to discuss their options.
“It’s hard to say what’s going to happen,” he said. “We may be entertaining one of the offers we received from law firms to look into the matter.”
Word spread across the city that outsiders want the memorial removed – and that has many residents up in arms.
Hiram Sasser, director of litigation with the Liberty Institute, told Fox News that activist groups like FFRF are waging a culture war.
“This is an outrageous assault on the veterans who served in Vietnam,” he said. “Why must these activist groups’ culture war spill over onto the veterans and their memorials? All they ever did was serve our country and provide the very freedom these activist groups claim as their own.”
This is an injustice to every one who fought and died in the Vienam war. This historic memorial has to be saved.
Erected in 1972. A national atheist organization is demanding that an Oregon city remove its Vietnam War memorial because it includes a cross. The Freedom From Religion Foundation accused city leaders in Coos Bay of violating the so-called separation of church and state after erecting the war memorial 41 years ago. The FFRF is a group of freethinkers, atheists and agnostics.
Read more: http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/atheists-want-vietnam-memorial-cross-removed.html
“Records don’t reflect how many complaints or who they were – but they were referred to the Jaycees,” he said. “That’s the group that’s installed it.”
Craddock said city leaders will meet next week to discuss their options.
“It’s hard to say what’s going to happen,” he said. “We may be entertaining one of the offers we received from law firms to look into the matter.”
Word spread across the city that outsiders want the memorial removed – and that has many residents up in arms.
Hiram Sasser, director of litigation with the Liberty Institute, told Fox News that activist groups like FFRF are waging a culture war.
“This is an outrageous assault on the veterans who served in Vietnam,” he said. “Why must these activist groups’ culture war spill over onto the veterans and their memorials? All they ever did was serve our country and provide the very freedom these activist groups claim as their own.”
This is an injustice to every one who fought and died in the Vienam war. This historic memorial has to be saved.
Why is this important?
After 41 years, a group of protestors want the Memorial removed from a Coos Bay City park. When this memorial was dedicated, Vietnam Veterans Memorials were very few. The war was still going on. Protestors from around America were trashing Vietnam Veterans as baby-killers and village-burners. It is part of history. With a cross on it or not, it represents ALL Vietnam Veterans from across America. City Leaders will meat this week after Easter to decide on removing the cross memorial. Please have your say, Please sign and share. Save this Memorial for all the Heroes it represents.