Cross controversy.LAFAYETTE, California Lafayette is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city's population was 23,908. It is named (in 1857) after the Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero of the American Revolutionary War. -- A memorial to war dead in a San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Bay-area suburb is stirring debate about freedom of speech, reports the Associated Press. Hundreds of crosses and a sign bearing the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq erected by Jeff Heaton, a Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. conscientious objector conscientious objector, person who, on the grounds of conscience, resists the authority of the state to compel military service. Such resistance, emerging in time of war, may be based on membership in a pacifistic religious sect, such as the Society of Friends , are visible from a local commuter train station and a nearby freeway, eliciting protests from commuters. "It seemed like a touching way to make people aware of the true costs of the war," Heaton said. The memorial's sign triggered a city council hearing because it violates an ordinance limiting signs to 4 square feet. |
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