Lafayette California has become one of the major anti-war sites in the nation, along with Santa Barbara, and Santa Monica. Local anti-war residents have erected 3,188 crosses representing all of the U.S. military war dead in Iraq. While most of the sentiment has been positive, a significant minority in Contra Costa County are opposed to this memorial. The Lafayette city council made the sponsors of the memorial change the size of the signage that indicates the number of war dead, but okayed the crosses themselves. On Thursday March 9, there was a confrontation between a pro-war group organized by Melanie Morgan with got into a heated argument with their anti-war opposites. One of the pro-war individuals objected to his son's name being on one of the crosses, so it was removed. Many parents though have approved their children's names being memorialized. Whether one likes the memorial or not, it serves as a daily reminder that there is a horrible price being paid for this war.
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