Washington, DC—The following statement may be attributed to Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO, and Chief Counsel to First Liberty Institute: “One hundred years ago, mothers who lost their sons in World War Ihttps://firstliberty.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=16894&action=edit#edit_timestamp chose to design a memorial resembling their sons’ gravestones – the Peace Cross. Tearing down this WWI Veterans […]
Fox and Friends interviews Kelly Shackelford to discuss the Supreme Court’s consideration of the Bladensburg WWI Veterans Memorial. Want to be the FIRST to know the latest on Bladensburg? Follow us on social media for breaking updates!
By Shannon Bream, Bill Mears | Fox News OBLADENSBURG, Md. – The war memorial has seen better days. Sitting in a traffic circle in the Washington suburbs, the Bladensburg Peace Cross as it is known has large cracks in its tan concrete and pink granite. Water damage has stained the […]
By: Alvergia Guyton & Mary Laquay Our uncles died less than 40 days before the end of World War I. Though we never met them, we will never forget what they meant to our family, community, and nation. But now, unless the Supreme Court intervenes, the memorial bearing their name […]
By: Jeremy Dys, Deputy General Counsel for First Liberty Institute Peter Jackson’s documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old” brings to life the men who actually fought in World War I. The silent, grainy, gray films from a century ago have long felt too remote and distant to convey the power, intensity […]
By: Jeremy Dys, Deputy General Counsel for First Liberty Institute It has taken five years of litigation — resulting in a four volume appendix — to determine whether a nearly 100-year-old veterans memorial is constitutional. On Wednesday, February 27, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear argument over […]
