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Association. fred, i want to start with you. why are you against a memorial that honors those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect for freedoms like the first amendment. >> because we want to honor the all and that is our main thrust. we even have a ##honorthemall. we understand the 30-foot tall latin cross on government land broadcast clearly that only christians soldiers are being honored. >> honoring all the hell is it honoring them to remove it? that doesn't make any sense despite your #. >> in 1985, the cross was declared to be in honor of all veterans of all wars, all veterans were...

On everyone else in the state o maryland as well. attorney general, your response. >> this is a war memorial. it is one of several that's ove at the location. we know that the inscription on the memorial is secular in nature talking about fowler, talking about honor, that you can actually have a memorial to its purpose is mostly secular. they were honored by crosses in their homes, their stories. if you talk about the rows of crosses that were set up. it is meant to honor the dead. you can really distinguish that. it really i think takes a stretch to say that this is purely for religious purpo...

Far-reaching consequences impacting monuments across the nation including some at arlington national cemetery. the memorial at the center of this case is a cross that honor world war i veterans in maryland . its construction was started by community members and mothers whose sons died in world war i and it was completed by the american legion. the lower court has ruled that the cross should be removed because it is the establishment clause of the constitution whic of course reads congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. but a ...

There is no doubt that the highway median is on government land. and it's not a cemetery. >> did they coerce you into changing our beliefs? >> it gives the impression that no are welcome in the city. it presents bladensburg as though it were a christian enclave. when i first saw that cross, when i first drove there when i move down here in 2003, i thought that is ridiculous. that just gives this impression right off the start. it is unmistakable. when it's illuminated at night, all you see is this cross floating in the darkness. you don't know it supposed to b a war memorial. you can't tell. t...

The fourth circuit, we could be dealing with a situation where hundreds of morals across the country may be forced to be tor down. just as you indicated, the purpose of this memorial is to honor the war debt. we know when the peace cross wa first put together, this was done to honor 49 individuals wh fought in world war i. they were commemorated. across the country, there are memorials similar to this, but you have to look at the context in which these memorials are se up. that states and individuals hav the right to commemorate the dead. that's different, that's not a purely religious purpose...