Somerville war veterans who are fed up with protests over the controversial “Black Lives Matter” banner that has been hanging above City Hall for more than a year — and their mayor’s refusal to take it down — have draped an “All Lives Matter” banner over the city’s American Legion Post.

“We seen what went on with City Hall. We’re not happy about it,” post Commander Dave Chamberlain told the Herald yesterday, hours after the big blue banner went up. “We’re not knocking Black Lives Matter. We’re not knocking anybody … We don’t care about your color. We don’t care about where you come from — all lives matter.”

Chamberlain said the decision to hang the banner was a non-political response to Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone’s recent refusal to replace the “Black Lives Matter” banner hanging outside City Hall with one reading “All Lives Matter.”

“It’s something I felt I had to do,” Chamberlain said. “We don’t care about color. We don’t care about nationality. Yes, we’re sick about the police officers being shot (and) we don’t like seeing black kids getting shot by cops … We’re not political. We don’t want to be. We’ve got to make a statement. ?Everybody matters.”

Members of police unions from several communities — including Somerville — gathered outside City Hall last month to protest the city’s refusal to remove the “Black Lives Matter” sign. In a statement issued days before the protest, Somerville Police Employees Association president Michael McGrath said it was irresponsible for the city to declare support for the lives of one segment of the population “to the exclusion of others including police officers.”

But Curtatone refused and stressed that the banner is staying put.

“It is violence that tests us in every community, demanding we either come together, or break apart, and let me be clear: communities cannot sit this conversation out,” Curtatone said at the protests.

Curtatone did not respond to multiple calls for comment yesterday.

Mark Killoren, the post’s junior vice commander, said the new banner represents what it means to be a veteran.

“In the military we’re all green. Everybody who served their country, their color was the same,” Killoren said. “When you were in a foxhole, you didn’t give a (expletive) what color they were. They’re saving your life. That sign is going to stay up on the post.”

City residents passing the banner yesterday had a range of reactions.

“My familiarity with the phrase is that it’s a response to Black Lives Matter and to the extent that it’s sort of trying to create some sort of conflict with that sentiment, and I don’t agree with it,” said Brian Pettit, 34. “So to the extent they are trying to create attention or anything I wouldn’t support the sign — but to the extent it’s a private organization, I think they can put whatever they want on their building.”

Alan Godbolt, 55, wondered why there wasn’t room for both banners at City Hall.

“It’s something that needs to be said,” Godbolt said of the banner. “I know there’s one at City Hall and I know that there’s been a fuss about it, but that needs to be said … Both of them need to be said.”