Diane Vera

I recently came across this web commentary: Newspaper Insults Wiccan Soldiers - Indeed, All Wiccans, about a mock-photo cartoon that appeared in the New York Post accompanying an April 24 news story titled Something Wicca This Way Comes. The news story itself, by Scott Bauer of the Associated Press, was about the legal battle by the families of Wiccan soldiers to include the Wiccan pentacle among the many different religious symbols that can be engraved on government-issued gravestones for fallen soldiers. (On Yahoo News, on the ABC News site, on Federal News Radio, and on the Seattle Times site, this same AP news story had the more dignified and more informative title of "VA allows Wiccan symbols on headstones" or something similar.) The mock-photo does not appear on the New York Post website, but is said to have appeared in the New York Post print edition on April 24, 2007, on page 9.
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