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To: IronJack
I was a little torn, but finally had to agree that any man who gave up his life defending me deserved the liberty of marking his final resting place however he wanted, regardless of how ridiculous it makes him look.

I've been through the process a couple of times and I have to say the gov't provided markers are quite limited in terms of design or inscription to keep a uniformity.

I don't remember my voiced position when the lawsuit first came up but recall it was at a time when I was waiting to see if the marker we had requested would reflect what we hoped in light of the callous, inattentive service received on site. Ultimately the marker was satisfactory if not what was desired.

Excluding her from this meeting shows grand stupidity. I'm sorry Bush was put in this position and I'd want to know who was responsible.

As far as the marker, the real point of contention was the foot-dragging over adding a Wiccan symbol to the already approved list. The excuse was the lack of a central or governing body for that faith. I guess this ultimately comes down to "free exercise thereof" and this I'm not surprised she was ultimately victorious in getting the symbol on the marker.

117 posted on 09/02/2007 5:18:47 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: newzjunkey
As far as the marker, the real point of contention was the foot-dragging over adding a Wiccan symbol to the already approved list. The excuse was the lack of a central or governing body for that faith. I guess this ultimately comes down to "free exercise thereof" and this I'm not surprised she was ultimately victorious in getting the symbol on the marker.

I would be curious to know where you got that data from, since some of the ones that do have symbols make Wiccans look positively well organized.
128 posted on 09/02/2007 6:38:44 PM PDT by Starwolf
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