Flight 93 Memorial Revealed

[theim]

Hmm...uh...remind anyone of anything?

Why don't we just redesign the holocaust memorial in the form of a swastika. People centuries from now are going to look at things like this and assume that our great civilization just one day decided to commit mass suicide. We do keep falling over ourselves to help and love our enemies.

 

[Mr. P]

Doesn't remind me of anything really.

 

[theim]

peerhaps this will help

 

[Mr. P]

Big stretch, no star....Whatever..

 

[theim]

well I knew I wasn't crazy
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003506.htm
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17441_Flight_93_Outrage&only
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/005409.php

 

[no1tovote4]

Who the heck are they memorializing? The hijackers?

 

[Abbey Normal]

Perhaps they should add a plaque apologizing for reminding everyone that Islamist terrorists hijacked the plane.

 

[Annie]

Hmm...uh...remind anyone of anything?

Why don't we just redesign the holocaust memorial in the form of a swastika. People centuries from now are going to look at things like this and assume that our great civilization just one day decided to commit mass suicide. We do keep falling over ourselves to help and love our enemies.

I saw that yesterday, well not the pic, which is interesting in and of itself, but rather the idea that the design was a 'crescent.' There is something weirdly self-destructive at work here...

 

[Annie]

Links at site:

http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/002322.html

September 10, 2005
Bush Unveils His Flight 93 Memorial Proposal
by Scott Ott

(2005-09-10) -- As Americans reacted in shock to the proposed 'Crescent of Embrace' memorial to Flight 93, which resembles the crescent trademark of Islam, President George Bush today unveiled a proposal of his own.

"The people who died in Pennsylvania fighting for control of United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, don't need a new memorial," said Mr. Bush. "In very real sense, they already have two memorials: We call them The White House and the Capitol Building."

Mr. Bush explained that since one of those two buildings was the likely target for the Muslim terrorists who hijacked the plane, "the fact that they're both still standing is a lasting tribute to the people who gave their lives fighting evil."

"Every time you see those white pillars or that gleaming dome," the president said, "remember the 40 Americans who volunteered in a moment to defend freedom with their own blood. Remember the ones who looked fear in the face and said, 'Let's Roll.'

 

[theim]

Links at site:

http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/002322.html

That's not funny, that's what SHOULD be done.

 

[Annie]

That's not funny, that's what SHOULD be done.

I agree. Did you see the Discovery special on 9/11 flight 93?

 

[Annie]

Islam as they saw it, is NOT the way:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Flight-93-Memorial.html?emc=eta1

Pennsylvania Sept. 11 Memorial Redesigned
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 30, 2005
Filed at 12:26 p.m. ET

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Designers of a Flight 93 memorial have made a bowl-shaped piece of land its centerpiece, replacing a crescent-shape design that some critics had said was a symbol honoring terrorists, officials announced Wednesday.

The new design for the memorial, to be built on the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, crash near Shanksville, features most of the details of the original, which victims' relatives helped select after a worldwide design competition.

But a round, bowl-shaped area would replace a ''Crescent of Embrace,'' a crescent-shaped cluster of maple trees.

After the original design was unveiled in September, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., criticized it in a letter to the National Park Service director, saying many questioned the shape ''because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam -- and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists.''

Paul Murdoch, president of Paul Murdoch Architects, which designed the memorial, had called the criticism of the crescent an ''unfortunate diversion,'' but said they were sensitive to the concerns.

In both old and new versions of the design, a tower with 40 wind chimes would welcome visitors to the site, where they could then walk to a large circular field ringed by 40 groves of red and sugar maple trees, symbolizing the 40 passengers and crew who died. There will also be pedestrian trails, a plaza from which to view the crash site, and a white marble wall with the victims' names inscribed.

Gordon Felt, of Remsen, N.Y., whose brother, Edward Felt, died in the crash, said he didn't believe the original design honored the hijackers but is nonetheless pleased with the changes.

''My concern is that we have a memorial that honors my brother and the 39 other brave Americans that were on Flight 93 in a respectful way that not only respects their lives but respects the topography of the land,'' Felt said Wednesday.

In the Flight 93 National Memorial's newsletter, Murdoch described the new design as an ''evolution'' of what was announced two months ago, reflecting input from the public, the competition's jury and others.

The circle enhances the earlier design by putting more emphasis on the crash site, officials said in the newsletter. A break in the trees will symbolize the path the plane took as it crashed.

Flight 93 was flying to San Francisco from Newark, N.J., when it became the last of four planes hijacked that day and the only one not to kill anyone on the ground. The official 9/11 Commission report said the hijackers crashed it as passengers, aware of the previous hijackings, tried to take control of the cockpit. The crash site is about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

The original design was selected by a jury of 15 made up of design professionals and family and community members and was narrowed down from a pool of 1,011. A projected date for the opening has not been set.

 

[Hobbit]

It would be like having a holocaust memorial in the shape of a swaztika, or a sunrise shaped memorial to victims of the Batan Death March.

 

[insein]

of course it would. Why are they letting liberal, communist artsy fartsy's design a memorial.

Its a memorial. Its meant to remember what happened. You build a statue of everyone on board standing triumphantly that they lived and died for the greatest country in the world. Or if statues arent your thing, you build a wall similar to the Vietnam memorial, only you have each passengers face on the wall as a rememberance that these were real people that did an EXTRAORDINARY thing.

I swear liberalism and political correctness will be the death of us all.

 

[Annie]

of course it would. Why are they letting liberal, communist artsy fartsy's design a memorial.

Its a memorial. Its meant to remember what happened. You build a statue of everyone on board standing triumphantly that they lived and died for the greatest country in the world. Or if statues arent your thing, you build a wall similar to the Vietnam memorial, only you have each passengers face on the wall as a rememberance that these were real people that did an EXTRAORDINARY thing.

I swear liberalism and political correctness will be the death of us all.

Yup, looking a bit more:

http://errortheory.blogspot.com/2005/11/redesigned-flight-93-memorial-still_30.html