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The Mojave Desert War Memorial in California was the subject of a heated legal dispute that wound its way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in April that the memorial's cross did not violate church-state strictures.![Mojave Cross]()
May 10: An image of the base of the Mojave Cross after it was torn down and stolen from its perch on Sunrise Rock in California's Mojave Desert War Memorial.![Boarded Up]()
An image of the Mojave Cross covered and boarded up during a period when the caretakers of the memorial were awaiting a decision on appeal from the U.S. Supreme Court.![Covered Cross]()
During the legal dispute, the cross spent years covered by a tarpaulin bag at the behest of lower courts.![Sunrise Rock]()
May 10: Another view of the base of the Mojave after it was torn down by thieves.Mojave Cross Stolen by Vandals
The 7-foot-tall metal cross that has stood in California's Mojave Desert for 75 years as a memorial to World War I dead -- and withstood a hard-fought battle in the Supreme Court -- was ripped down and stolen in a nighttime heist, according to state officials.
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- Mojave Cross Stolen by Vandals
