Religious liberty in America will be saved or lost by the choices of everyday people in moments when their freedom is tested.

Henry Sandoz’ test began in the middle of a California desert in 2000 when a government official showed up at his door and requested Henry tear down the historic veterans memorial cross of which Henry was caretaker.

This week, Henry Sandoz’ family, friends, fellow veterans, and his attorneys, which included Liberty Institute and some of the most high-level lawyers in America, mourned his passing at age And they celebrated his life—including his still-living legacy of case law that protects veterans memorials with religious imagery.

His mark on American law began that day in the desert. Henry looked back at the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) superintendent and emphatically told him he would absolutely not take down the memorial cross.

“I thank God he’s a stubborn guy,” his wife Wanda later recalled to a reporter for World News.

Hiram Sasser, Deputy Chief Counsel for Liberty Institute, which defended the memorial at the Supreme Court, said, “If Henry Sandoz had caved in, the only World War I Memorial designated a National Monument by Congress would have come down, and the ACLU’s campaign to single out and take down veterans memorials with religious imagery would have claimed its most prominent victim.”

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Source: http://blog.libertyinstitute.org