Atomic
After seeing the news that Wiccan pentacles are now on the approved symbols for soldier’s headstones, I tracked down the official list of approved symbols on the Department of Veterans Affairs website. Needless to say, none of the thirty eight other symbols can compare to the coolness of the atheist symbol :
Why go with a cross or a star when you can have a gravestone that reminds people of this?
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Xenu is going to be pissed at the exclusion. Lawsuit to follow.
Comment by Forkboy — April 25, 2007 @ 11:57 am
They could always use the image of Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch, if necessary.
Comment by J. A. Baker — April 25, 2007 @ 1:48 pm
awesome! i want that on my tombstone… or urn.
Comment by tomN! — April 25, 2007 @ 3:30 pm
That’s way cooler than the symbol for humanists!
Comment by Amy — April 25, 2007 @ 5:18 pm
That’s way cooler than the symbol for humanists!
But wait — why are the Christian Scientist cross and crown and the Muslim 5-pointed star copy-written?
Comment by Amy — April 25, 2007 @ 5:19 pm
It reminds me more of this:
http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/vrtp/dis-java-vrml/images/Duty_Now_Logo.gif
Comment by dAnimal — April 26, 2007 @ 3:21 pm
Scroll to the bottom and find this:
No graphics (logos, symbols, etc.) are permitted on Government-furnished headstones or markers other than the approved emblems of belief, the Civil War Union Shield, the Civil War Confederate Southern Cross of Honor, and the Medal of Honor insignias.
Are they saying the “Civil War Confederate Southern Cross of Honor” is still an option for any unreconstructed Southern racists who die in Iraq?
At least now I’ll know what to look for on Trent Lott’s tombstone.
Comment by SteveB — April 26, 2007 @ 6:31 pm
What, no FSM? I’m sure there are a few Pastafarians out there fighting and dying for… whatever.
Comment by slim — April 27, 2007 @ 10:31 am
And there’s no emblem for Discordians …
(It wouldn’t surprise me if the Scientologists sued for lack of an available symbol, which they have. See http://mysite.verizon.net/sportinlife/postimages/scientology.jpg )
Comment by Proginoskes — April 27, 2007 @ 7:46 pm
It’s meaningless. A hydrogen atom would be more appropriate.
If I’m to have a symbol, it shall be one I respect.
Comment by Jon Osterman — April 27, 2007 @ 8:57 pm
Madalyn Murray O’Hair got the symbol added to the official list and Richard O’Hair (a husband of hers) was the first to have it on a marker.
Comment by Steverino — April 30, 2007 @ 9:30 am