A national anti-Christian organization is demanding an Oregon city remove a Vietnam War memorial because it contains a cross.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation says government officials in Coos Bay, Oregon are violating the mythical separation of church and state by creating the memorial to Vietnam veterans 41 years ago.

““The Christian-only memorial sends a message that the government only cares about the deaths of Christian soldiers, not Jewish, other non-Christian, and non-religious soldiers,” FFRF attorney Rebecca Markert wrote in a letter to the city.

The war memorial was placed in Mingus Park in 1972 by private citizens and companies. No government funds were used to create the memorial.

“This is an outrageous assault on the veterans who served in Vietnam,” Hiram Sasser of the Liberty Institute said. “Why must these activist groups’ culture war spill over onto the veterans and their memorials? All they ever did was serve our country and provide the very freedom these activist groups claim as their own.”

City Manager Rodger Craddock said the city may look into the offers from law firms to look into defending the city.

Local citizens were enraged than an anti-Christian group outside their city is trying to move the memorial to their local soldiers.