I heard that all of the war dead being honored were Christian. As this is a World War I memorial, that is not surprising.
I heard some idiot on TV saying that this Christian cross is not honoring Jewish or Buddhist or Muslim war dead.
Since it is honoring the specific war dead from that one town, a town which had no Muslims at the time, this idiot just proves his own ignorance.
How many Muslim war dead did this country have from World War I????? Any?????
Zero from WWI. The first Mosque in America was built in 1934. And I cannot find the name of a single moslem American soldier who died in WWII.
I found two different articles that said roughly 5,000 Muslims served in the American armed forces in WW1. Given that almost 5 million Americans served in WW1, a figure of roughly 0.1% seems reasonable.
Surely some of those 5,000 men were killed in action.
The memorial was for the war dead in the county.