O.K.
Enough is enough is
enough!
This is a war
memorial dedicated to the
‘World War One
Heroes’ from this town!
Enough Said?
Supreme Court to
decide fate of cross-shaped memorial
A cross, erected in
memory of Fray Juan de Padilla,
stands along US56
near Lyons, Kan.,
Tuesday, Feb. 12,
2019.
The cross was a gift
to the State of Kansas
by the
Knights of Columbus
in 1950.
SOURCE: Orlin Wagner
via AP Photo
Steven C. Lowe says
he has always thought that a 40-foot-tall,
concrete cross that stands on a
large, grassy highway median near his Maryland home was odd.
For years, he says,
He didn't know that
the cross is a war memorial.
A plaque on the
cross's base lists the names of 49 area residents
who died in World
War I.
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