National Memorial Status Sought for Cross

A Michigan-based law center has started a national petition drive to obtain memorial status for a 43-foot cross posted on city parkland in San Diego.

The Thomas More Law Center began that effort Thursday to urge federal officials to deem the Mt. Soledad Veterans War Memorial a national memorial.

San Diego voters defeated a ballot proposition this month that would have allowed the city to auction off the land and charge the purchaser with determining the fate of the cross.