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BRUNSWICK, Maine --Firefighters will be allowed to erect a memorial that features a poem with a reference to God and language that some town councilors viewed as sexist. The poem, "A Fireman's Prayer," was written in 1959 by Kansas firefighter A.W. Linn and is found on memorials across the country.

INTERNATIONAL ZONE, Iraq — Against a backdrop of a victory arch of two hands holding cross swords put up by Saddam Hussein to celebrate his self-declared victory over Iran years ago, an American soldier swore to continue defending freedom. Sgt. Troy Lust raised his right hand and re-enlisted in an area where former Iraqi dictator Hussein reviewed quasi-goose-stepping members of his Republican Guard. The former Marine, who said he spent eight years during peace time in the Corps and five years as a soldier in a country at war, signed up for another half-decade of military service. Before having the...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) -- The Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Haskell County, demanding that a Ten Commandments monument be removed from the courthouse grounds in Stigler. Haskell County commissioners had no immediate comment on the lawsuit. It alleges the display violates constitutional protections against government endorsement of religion and entanglement of government with religion. The ACLU brought the complaint on behalf of Jim Green, a retired veteran and a longtime resident of Haskell County. He objects to the monument because he believes the display violates the U-S Constitution and trivializes religion.

A federal court judge Tuesday ruled that a marker engraved with the words of the Ten Commandments may remain on city of Everett property. The monument stands in front of the Everett police station, the old city hall site, near the intersection of Wall Street and Wetmore Avenue. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Lasnik denied a request by Everett resident Jesse Card, an agnostic, who sought removal of the monolith, a six-foot high granite structure. Card said its presence violated the principle of separation of church and state. However, in a written opinion, Lasnik ruled that the city display "poses...

A stone monument of the Ten Commandments stands in front of the City of Everett Police Station at the corner of Wetmore Avenue and Wall Street in Everett. A U.S. District Court judge in Seattle has ordered that a monument of the Ten Commandments outside the Everett police station and City Council chambers can remain there and that it doesn't violate the First Amendment. In a summary judgment for the City of Everett, Judge Robert Lasnik said the Everett case was "remarkably similar" to a Texas case against a Ten Commandments monument outside the state capitol. The Supreme Court ruled...

Monument Alternative Like Napoleon Dynamite, I lack skills. Numbchuck skills, computer hacking skills, graphical artist skills... but it is supposed to look like a cross. NOT a Christian cross, of course. Any resemblance is purely coincidental!!! Anybody who wants to take this idea and run with it has my blessing.

I'm sure they never even dreamed the US would honor them so! Click here to see the Flight 93 Memorial Project overlayed with an Islamic crescent. "WTF?!?" was my first reaction. But the architect says I shouldn't jump to conclusions... it is a crescent, yes, but that doesn't mean it represents Islam! Don't be so paranoid!!! A bunch of liberals echoed that sentiment, so I began to question myself. Well, it certainly could be a coincidence. Weird symbol to choose for basically random reasons- I mean why choose a crescent at all... but okay, fair enough. It isn't like that...

A monument to Hitler soldiers has been standing for 11 years in central part of Moscow 09/05/2005 16:05 The monument was unveiled in 1994, in the period of liberalism and democracy's wild outburst, when money was the strongest instrument It has become some sort of a fashion to call things politically correct or incorrect. Today, not only Americans but also Europeans and people in Asia are anxious about the liberal ideas standing for the rights of different minorities and other aggrieved people. It seems strange at first that today many countries in Central and Eastern Europe, those where the Soviet...

On Friday, July 1, in Budapest, Hungary, the city council approved placing a monument of former President Reagan in the capital city park. It is the first time a former Soviet bloc elected government has voted to erect a monument in honor of the President for his role in ending the Cold War and freeing Eastern Europe from Communist oppression. Népszabadság, Hungary's largest national newspaper (and the former Communist Party mouthpiece), reported that the support for the monument crossed all party lines, a rarity in Hungarian politics

Berlin Outrage: Checkpoint Charlie Monument to be Bulldozed July 4th We didn't think it could get much worse in Germany...well, it just did. Davids Medienkritik recently learned that the Berlin city government, made up of a coalition between the SPD (Gerhard Schroeder's Social-Democrats) and the PDS (former SED party that ran Communist East Germany), has decided to allow the razing of the Checkpoint Charlie monument by court order. And get this: The monument, which consists of over 1,000 crosses adorned with the names of those murdered attempting to escape Communist East Germany for freedom, will be bulldozed on the 4th...

VLADIVOSTOK, June 13, (RIA Novosti's Anatoly Ilyukhov) - A monument to the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese war's victims will be unveiled in the city's Pokrovsky park on the 60-th Victory Over Japan (VJ) Day anniversary. Professor Gennady Turmov, rector of the Far Eastern State Technical University and member of the Primorye territorial legislature, suggested building this monument. "Architect Yury Likhansky drew this monument," Turmov said. The design was completed by the Far Eastern Naval R&D Institute. "This will be a rectangular obelisk adorned with a globe symbolizing our planet," Turmov said. Each side of the obelisk will feature the inscription "To the...

The following is an event June 25th that although is not sponsored or endorsed by the United American Committee may be of interest to many of our members. I will be there and if you can make it, you are all welcome to join me: There is a monument in the city of Baldwin Park in the L.A. area that is paid for by tax payers money and has inscribed on it the following text:"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is, And will be again."And on the other side of the monument it reads:"IT WAS BETTER BEFORE...

CUSTER, S.D. - Nearly six decades have passed since work began on the Crazy Horse Memorial, a granite mountain being carved into a colossal sculpture of the Sioux warrior, arm outstretched toward his ancestral homeland, astride a stallion more than two football fields long. When it's finished - and no one is predicting when that will be - the sculpture will be 563 feet high and 641 feet long. It will be taller than the Washington Monument, and so large that the four presidential heads on Mount Rushmore, 17 miles away, would fit inside the nine-story-high warrior's head.But with $17...

Vet is shepherding war-dog honor By Mike McPhee Denver Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 31, 2005 A Vietnam War veteran and Denver-area native is on a mission to create a national monument in Washington, D.C., to the dogs that soldiers used in combat. John Burnam, who served two tours of duty as a war-dog handler in Vietnam during the 1960s, presented his case Wednesday to the Colorado legislature, which passed a resolution supporting his efforts. More than 4,000 dogs, mostly shepherds, were used in Vietnam for scouting, finding hidden explosives and tracking. Most died in Vietnam, with only about 250...

The Georgia Guidestones have been part of the landscape in Elberton, Georgia for a quarter of a century. Tourists flood to Elberton each year to see the 19-foot-tall granite monument, often posing for pictures standing beside it. After 25 years, a Christian organization named The Resistance is calling for the monument’s immediate removal. "The satanic Georgia Guidestones must be destroyed," insists John Conner of The Resistance. "The Guidestones should be smashed into a million pieces, and then the rubble used for a construction purpose." The notion of hacking the monument into smithereens for construction scrap has a certain appeal, given...

The NAACP would like the Confederate soldier memorial removed from the Courthouse on the Square lawn and placed in a museum, the organization’s Denton County president confirmed Tuesday

This article was sent via email to one of my Christian Wives members. Apparently it is an email circulating through the conservative Christian web, being encouraged to be passed along and posted wherever it can. It is amazing to me, with the hullabaloo of 'separation between church and state',(which are all aware IS NOT in the Constitution!) that the liberal 'powers that be' are not taking the time to search their American Heritage, and truly discover what this country was founded for , and the principles it was founded on. I hope all of you enjoy this as much as...

LANSING -- Prompted by comments this weekend by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Michigan family values organization Saturday said it has invited a national veterans group to bring former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument to Lansing and will seek the Democratic governor's official sponsorship of a temporary display of the monument in the state Capitol rotunda. Granholm, in comments broadcast by a Lansing public affairs television show, "endorsed Friday the display of the Ten Commandments in government buildings, including the state Capitol," the Detroit Free Press reported Saturday. http://www.freep.com/news/mich/granholm12e_20050212.htm The Free Press reported that during an...

Three monuments to Stalin to be unveiled in Russia and Ukraine 01/20/2005 18:20 It will be a monument to the leaders of the countries that participated in the Yalta Agreement Three monuments to Joseph Stalin will be unveiled in Russia and Ukraine prior to the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Victory Day on May 9th. The monuments are to be installed in the cities of Yalta (Ukraine), Moscow and Belgorod (Russia). It is the largest number of Stalin monuments to be unveiled on the territory of the former USSR for the first time since the national condemnation of...

The high court should stop its disingenuous sidestep of the church-state debate. The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a pair of cases testing the constitutionality of displays of the Ten Commandments on government property. The Court finally agreed to reconcile conflicting lower rulings-concerning the display of a six-foot monument on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol in one case, and another involving framed copies of the commandments on Kentucky courthouse walls. The two cases have legitimate differences: The Texas display is part of a collection, the Kentucky "collection" sprung up to protect the display. The Texas monument...