Two-point-seven million somebodies, actually.

The American Legion declared war on the ACLU.

Now, picking on the Boy Scouts is one thing -- Scouts are supposed to be Brave (although being assaulted by lefty lawyers would be more a trial of patience than courage). But, in 2002, the ACLU found a flaming a$$hat an Oregon resident who claimed his civil rights were flagrantly violated on those occasions he drove into California because he *gasp!* saw the Mojave Desert Veterans' Memorial -- a cross erected in 1934 to honor the dead of the First World War.

Interestingly enough, the Memorial sits on I-15, which is an east-west 'pike running from LA to Nevada. And, come to think of it, the Memorial is in the Eastern Mojave, right near the -- ummmm -- Nevada border. Now, I don't get out to the Left Coast that much, but I seem to recall that, in order to access California from Oregon, one must travel *south*, rather than one of the other cardinal directions. Such as south-and-then-*east*...

Using the Freedom From Religion clause in its (considerably abridged) copy of the Constitution, the ACLU took the cross to court and the court caved -- it ordered the cross destroyed and awarded the ACLU $63,000 for its efforts.

As I mentioned above, picking on the Boy Scouts is one thing; the living can defend themselves. But dead soldiers can no longer defend themselves, so their surviving brothers must do it.

Clever strategy -- take the profit out of religious litigation and you take the profiteers out of the religious litigation business.

H.R. 2679 has passed the House (check the political pro and con percentages) and went to the Senate, which has it's own version -- naturally -- S. 3696.

Meantime, send 1SG Keith a get well card. Take your pick, but I'd go with the Army version...