Michael Pakaluk, ordinary professor, ethics and social philosophy, published commentary on The Boston Pilot about his thoughts on the Bladensburg Cross.
...There are many WWI memorials around the country. No one knows for sure why this one was made in the form of a giant cross. But the best guess is that the cross is meant to reproduce, and signify by reproducing, the simple crosses which mark the graves in cemeteries at the great battlefields of WWI...
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