A cross, like a river, is never the same crossed twice

OK, the American Legion says it's going to build a new cross on the putatively private postage stamp of land in the middle of the Mojave National Preserve if nobody finds the one stolen yesterday that raised a Supreme Court ruckus.

But, ff the Legion rebuilds the cross, aren't we under a new setting, i.e., even if the Legion claims that a cross was a symbol of "civic religion" at the time of the original, that cross ain't such a symbol today. This ain't WWI. And, Nino Scalia et al have been told to their collective faces that Jewish veterans' graves don't have crosses.

(Not to mention Muslim veterans' graves, nonreligious servicemembers' graves, etc.)

So, since the land swap for a private parcel postage-stamp plot is still in limbo at the federal district court level, I dare the Legion to try building a new one.