It went down like this.

In August, thousands of people rallied to keep a veterans memorial in a public park in Knoxville, Iowa — despite a lawsuit threat from Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which said the memorial should be moved because the cross connected to it is a religious symbol.

In September, over 30 people made impassioned cases to the city council about why the memorial —which depicts a silhouette of a soldier kneeling at a cross — should stay. A petition to keep the memorial bearing over 500 signatures was presented.

Read the article “City Responds after Council Members Vote to Move Veterans Memorial Featuring a Cross” on theblaze.com.