I read the recent debate about the Mount Soledad cross with considerable pleasure. It's comforting to see that the contributors to the American Thinker are independent enough to have some issues they disagree about and that they can do so with civility and good humor. I was therefore encouraged to add a few footnotes: 1. The cross became a traditional symbol of military deaths largely because, in the days before political correctness, makeshift graves at battle sites were usually marked with wooden crosses, simply because they were easy to construct and erect. 2. But there is a much deeper connection, one which is not religious at all. Any non—Christian who reads the story of Jesus Christ, assuming the story to be fiction and the Gospels mere myths, would nonetheless be deeply impressed by the story of a man who, foreseeing his death and having the option of refusing it, voluntarily sacrificed his life for the sake of his people. This powerful image makes Jesus the perfect...(Read Full Post)