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Town of Monument won't remove Christian veterans memorial from its cemetery | News


Eagle Scout Michael Carlson raised funding to make and install this memorial.
Courtesy MRFF
The town of Monument sold five grave plots in city-owned Monument Cemetery to a Boy Scout’s family in an apparent effort to dodge a First Amendment lawsuit threatened by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
The plots, which cost $800 each, were sold on March 19, Monument Town Manager Mike Foreman says. That was weeks after the MRFF raised objections to a stone memorial monument installed there, with the city’s help, as the Eagle Scout project of Michael Carlson.
The memorial has this inscription: “Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American soldier. One died for your soul, the other died for your freedom. We honor those who made freedom a reality.” ....

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