Liberty Counsel is offering free legal defense to the city of Hiram, Georgia, for its Memorial Day display of 79 wooden white crosses, which were meant to honor 79 fallen local soldiers.

The city originally displayed the crosses but, after one person complained, hastily took them down the same day. The city council met on May 24, 2016, and unanimously voted to return the cross display. The city did so the next morning.

White crosses are a well-known, international symbol that have been used in overseas cemeteries for Americans for decades. In many of the 50 or more cemeteries and memorials across the world, the U.S. government pays for and maintains similar white crosses.

For one person to demand that the city remove the crosses displays a lack of understanding of American history and honor for the lives and deaths of our soldiers. The cross is an international symbol of the graves of American soldiers. Liberty Counsel fully support this constitutional display and other similar displays across the country.

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