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  • 'Wiccans' win place in US military cemeteries (Armed Forces Jedi "Encouraged")

    04/23/2007 2:45:32 PM PDT · by presidio9 · 55 replies · 1,322+ views
    AFP ^ | 04/23/07
    Adherents to the neo-pagan cult Wicca soon will be permitted to place their symbol the pentacle -- a five-pointed star inscribed inside a circle -- on headstones in military cemeteries, US officials said Monday. After months of legal wrangling, the US Department of Veterans Affairs agreed to allow Wiccans to place the symbol on headstones, as do adherents to the Christian, Muslim and Jewish and other faiths. The policy change will go into effect in the next few months, officials said. "VA will be adding the pentacle to its list of approved emblems of belief that will be engraved on...