I stood here once and watched the sunset over La Jolla cove one summer evening. Couples would have picnics on the steps of the cross. There is something very special and comforting about the cross on a hill. Ernest Gordon, a surviver of a Japanese POW camp in Thailand wrote in his book "To End All Wars,
"Our life on the horizontal plane was made meaningful at the point where it was met by the vertical.
At the point marked by the Cross we found ourselves." -E.Gordon