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  • City Council rejects plan to transfer Mount Soledad site to Parks Service

    03/08/2005 10:51:23 PM PST · by newzjunkey · 6 replies · 1,002+ views
    San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 8:10 p.m. March 8, 2005 | Union Tribune Staff
    8:10 p.m. March 8, 2005 SAN DIEGO – The San Diego City Council on Tuesday rejected a plan to transfer the property atop Mount Soledad, including its 43-foot-tall cross, to the federal government to be designated a national veterans memorial. The panel voted 5-3 not to transfer the property to the National Parks Service, a last-ditch effort proposed by two San Diego congressmen to stop the removal of the cross from Mount Soledad. Advertisement The cross was ordered moved after federal judges twice declared the sale of the city land to the Mount Soledad Memorial Association unconstitutional because it favored...
  • Vandals deface Veterans Memorial (gutless punks spraypaint "Kill Bush" over hero's names)

    04/05/2004 10:43:00 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 31 replies · 407+ views
    San Marcos Daily Record ^ | Mon, April 5, 2004 | ANITA MILLER
    A gasp of disbelief, a sad shake of the head and a feeling of general disgust. That's how San Marcos residents reacted Saturday morning at the sight of graffiti spray-painted on the still under construction Hays County Veterans Memorial. Sometime overnight, someone used yellow spray paint to write "Kill Bush" on a section of the memorial where names of local veterans are displayed on a sloping wall. The same slogan, along with others, was repeated on the back of the memorial. "It's very disgusting," said Robert Guerrero, who served in Germany during the Vietnam era. "I have a lot of...