{"id":3343,"date":"2010-05-21T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2010-05-21T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T19:25:14","slug":"mojave-cross-replaced-then-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/mojave-cross-replaced-then-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mojave Cross Replaced… Then Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. The replacement cross was promptly removed<\/a> by the park service:<\/p>\n

The Mojave Cross saga took yet another unexpected turn Thursday, when the contested symbol that vanished last week reappeared briefly before being taken down by federal officials.<\/p>\n

National Park Service officials learned Thursday morning that a cross again was on top of Sunrise Rock, about 10 miles south of Interstate 15 near Cima Road, a sparsely traveled route into the Mojave National Preserve. It’s about 30 miles east of Baker.<\/p>\n

Some version of the cross has stood there for 75 years as a tribute to fallen World War I soldiers. Vandals made off with the cross May 9, 10 days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it could remain pending the outcome of a decade-long court battle over whether it should be permitted on public land.<\/p>\n

Once federal officials discovered Thursday that it was a replica of the stolen cross, the Justice Department said it had to be taken down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is beyond silly, it shouldn’t matter whether it’s the old cross or a new cross to replace the one that was stolen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. The replacement cross was promptly removed by the park service: The Mojave Cross saga took yet another unexpected turn Thursday, when the contested symbol that vanished last week […]<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[68,8,224],"tags":[986,989,985,988,987],"class_list":{"0":"post-3343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crime","7":"category-culture","8":"category-military","9":"tag-american-legion","10":"tag-mojave-cross","11":"tag-mojave-national-preserve","12":"tag-sunrise-rock","13":"tag-veterans-of-foreign-wars","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-RV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3307,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/11\/mojave-cross-torn-down-and-stolen-by-vandals\/","url_meta":{"origin":3343,"position":0},"title":"Mojave Cross Torn Down and Stolen by Vandals","author":"Jeff","date":"May 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Crime"","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/crime\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2454,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/02\/reminder-connecticut-july-4th-tea-parties\/","url_meta":{"origin":3343,"position":1},"title":"Reminder: Connecticut July 4th Tea Parties","author":"Jeff","date":"July 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a quick reminder that on Independence Day, the Connecticut Tea Party Patriots will hold public rallies in Hartford, Norwich and Stratford to encourage elected officials to exercise fiscal restraint, rein in government growth and support America\u2019s free market economy. 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