This news makes me happy!
YAY! We drove by it all the time for years. It's a valued local icon, or at least it used to be valued. We grew up around a lot of atheists in that area, and no one ever complained about the Mt. Soledad Memorial back then. I never heard anyone speak of it as a religious monument, but rather it was always correctly identified as a veteran's memorial. Of course, this was before the country lost its sanity.