Re: the Mount Soledad Cross controversy; after reading Paul Kokoski’s letter to the editor (“Saving the Soledad symbol II,” Jan. 13) in which he attempted to rationalize keeping the cross where it is, I felt compelled to write in noting the irony in his argument. Each point he attempted to make was actually one that the American Civil Liberties Union could point to in favor of taking down the cross on top of Mount Soledad. If anything, his letter drove home the point that the federal government is indeed endorsing a religion by keeping such a religious symbol on federal land. The argument he should be making is that the cross in this case is not a religious symbol at all but a memorial to our war veterans and nothing more. Evan Acker lives in La Jolla