<div class="gmail_quote">It's been called "the worst military defeat ever suffered by U.S. forces," but the 1814 Battle of Bladensburg might seem like a minor skirmish compared to the Culture War raging at Bladensburg's Peace Cross memorial this year. An atheist group is threatening to sue the Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission to remove the familiar monument honoring fallen soldiers in World War I, and local groups have mounted counter-protests. </div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">For more on the war to end all peace crosses, see the November issue of the <i>Hyattsville Life & Times</i>:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<a href="http://issuu.com/hyattsvillelifeandtimes/docs/2012-11">http://issuu.com/hyattsvillelifeandtimes/docs/2012-11</a><br><br>While you're there, read about a local Mennonite congregation that's defying its regional conference by performing gay marriages; recent arrests that may stop a spate of regional burglaries; what creatures lie beneath the Anacostia watershed's murky shallows; DeMatha High School's powerhouse soccer program; and more.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Read it all here, and subscribe for free:</span><br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><a href="http://issuu.com/hyattsvillelifeandtimes/docs/2012-10" target="_blank">http://issuu.com/hyattsvillelifeandtimes/docs/2012-10</a><br>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Chris Currie</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hyattsville</span></div>