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Why Crosses?
Opinion offered by Eric Verlo
We are asked all the time, "why are there no stars-of-David?" Or crescents? Or whatever else. I think there is a very good answer.
These crosses are perhaps the only symbol we share in Western culture to mark deaths.
They are meant to reflect the white agnostic crosses of Arlington Cemetary or the American military graveyards of Normandie,
what's become an icon of nationalistic sacrifice: rows of identical white crosses expanding geometrically to near infinity.
A soon as you hang eight stars-of-David among these crosses, the rest would become specifically Christian crosses.
Wouldn't the suggestion that all the rest were Christians be the greater misrepresentation?
Besides which, then the display would become a religious message, which it is not now.
These were most likely a-political, a-religious lives lost,
many of which were too young to have figured out for themselves a spiritual path.
Would a Christian cross represent them?
If I have to think of the cross as anything other than lost lonely souls whose lives were cruelly foreshortened,
I would prefer to think of the crosses as roman crucifixes: young men and women crucified for the gains of the empire.
The romans crucified jews on crosses.
If of course the majority of this town's residents do regard these crosses as exclusively Christian, let's let them.
Perhaps they will care about them as their own.
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