{"id":3307,"date":"2010-05-11T16:26:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2010-05-11T22:42:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T02:42:11","slug":"mojave-cross-torn-down-and-stolen-by-vandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/11\/mojave-cross-torn-down-and-stolen-by-vandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mojave Cross Torn Down and Stolen by Vandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mojave Cross, a memorial to World War I veterans, which has stood in various forms for more than 75 years was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/05\/11\/thieves-steal-mojave-desert-memorial-cross-nighttime-heist\/\" target=\"_blank\">torn down and stolen<\/a> by vandals sometime late Sunday or early Monday morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 7-foot-tall metal cross in a 75-year-old war memorial that  withstood the heat of the Mojave Desert and a blazing battle in the  Supreme Court over its legality was ripped down and stolen Sunday night,  according to federal officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an outrage, akin to desecrating people&#8217;s graves,&#8221; said Kelly  Shackelford, president of the Liberty Institute, which represents the  caretakers of the Mojave Desert War Memorial. &#8220;It&#8217;s a disgraceful attack  on the selfless sacrifice of our veterans. We will not rest until this  memorial is re-installed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The National Park Service says someone cut the metal bolts holding  the metal-pipe cross to the top of the memorial&#8217;s Sunrise Rock and made  off with it Sunday night or before dawn on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had no immediate motive for the theft but National Park  Service officials are considering a range of ideas from scrap metal  scavengers to people &#8220;with an interest in the case,&#8221; said Park Service  spokeswoman Linda Slater.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m really at a loss for words here, whoever did this, whatever their motivations, is a despicable rat bastard.<\/p>\n<p>That said I can&#8217;t help but think this cowardly act was perpetrated by some politically motivated ideologue&#8230; you would have to have been freeze dried for the last decade not to know the significance of the Mojave Cross, I can&#8217;t imagine even the sleaziest\u00a0 of scrap metal scavengers would be foolish enough to steal it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&amp;article=69916\" target=\"_blank\">WWI memorial cross stolen from Mojave National  Preserve<\/a> &#8211; Stars and Stripes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2010\/0511\/Mojave-cross-theft-shows-planning-veterans-groups-vow-to-rebuild\" target=\"_blank\">Mojave cross theft shows planning; veterans groups vow  to rebuild<\/a> &#8211; The Christian Science Monitor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thisainthell.us\/blog\/?p=19065\" target=\"_blank\">WWI memorial cross stolen from Mojave National  Preserve<\/a> &#8211; Jonn Lilyea, This Ain&#8217;t Hell<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/11\/mojave-desert-cross-stolen-by-vandals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mojave desert cross stolen by vandals<\/a> &#8211; Allahpundit, Hot Air<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/justridethebike.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/mojave-cross-torn-down-and-stolen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mojave  Cross Torn Down and Stolen!<\/a> &#8211; Riding and Ranting<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/morongobillsbackporch.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mojave  Cross Gone. Don\u2019t read if you are afraid of expressions of outrage<\/a> &#8211; morongobills backporch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mojave Cross, a memorial to World War I veterans, which has stood in various forms for more than 75 years was torn down and stolen by vandals sometime late Sunday or early Monday morning: The 7-foot-tall metal cross in a 75-year-old war memorial that withstood the heat of the Mojave Desert and a blazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68,8,224],"tags":[986,989,985,988,987],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-crime","category-culture","category-military","tag-american-legion","tag-mojave-cross","tag-mojave-national-preserve","tag-sunrise-rock","tag-veterans-of-foreign-wars","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-Rl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3343,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/mojave-cross-replaced-then-removed\/","url_meta":{"origin":3307,"position":0},"title":"Mojave Cross Replaced&#8230; Then Removed","author":"Jeff","date":"May 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometime late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning someone erected a replacement for the \"Mojave Cross\" which was torn down and stolen by vandals a week ago. 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