Posted on 08/02/2008 8:50:38 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
The father of a Flight 93 victim says a crescent-shaped design as part of a memorial to the hijacked airliner "does not properly honor our people."
Tom Burnett Sr. of Northfield, Minnesota, objects because a crescent is sometimes used as a symbol of Islam and the September 11th attacks were plotted by Muslims.
Burnett spoke today at a meeting of the commission advising the National Park Service on the design. He wants an investigation of how the design was chosen.
But Park Service officials and family members who like the design say it was fairly and impartially selected out of 1,100 submitted.
The planned memorial includes a semicircle of trees overlooking the Somerset County site where the hijacked airliner crashed.
38-year-old Thomas Burnett, Jr. was a passenger on Flight 93. He left behind a wife, Deena, and three young daughters, Madison, Halley, and Anna Clare.
Let us make certain that it doesn't....
(p.s. I'm formerly from MN - WAY TO GO BRO !!! YAH, YOU BETCHA - YOU DAH MAN!)
I’ve hated this design right from the beginning and so has many many others. What ticks me off about this is the fact that the committee or individuals in charge did not heed the concerns of the families about the design and it’s similarities...they have forge forward which is callous in my opinion.
SOMETIMES used!?
And it wasn't militant Norwegian grandmothers that hijacked the planes, either.
No. It was run of the mill Islamics.
Their blind eyes have been simply outrageous...
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Time to take this country back, Sarge?
Sowing salt comes to mind.
Maybe dutch elm disease.
Some sort of odd weevil infestation.
Let’s all have the muezzin chant rattle off in the bell tower. Everybody sing! Allahuakbar!!!
Hey, let’s even have RED TREE LEAVES COME AUTUMN! In the name of PIECE.....er peace!
World peace through total domination.
“crescent-shaped design”
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The sign of the Sh!tHouse Gang...IMHO...
A simple ring taken out of the bark...just sayin’.
I thought it was changed.
The original design was actually CALLED “the Crescent of Embrace,” until people started to question why the authorities thought it appropriate to “honor” the dead with a Muslim symbol.
Then they changed the name and slightly disguised the symbol. But it’s still an Islamic crescent. NOT a suitable memorial by any stretch of the imagination.
Hey! That’s right... No matter how you look at it... the red crescent shape is Islam... which idiotic committee picked it out? That design is TOTALLY inappropriate for the Flight 93 Memorial...
not appreciably.
The public outcry was ‘handled’
“Tom Burnett Sr. of Northfield, Minnesota, objects because a crescent is sometimes used as a symbol of Islam”
SOMETIMES??? It IS a symbol of Islam. I’ve followed this story for around a year, and it’s disgusting - sinister undercurrents about the whole thing, I guarantee you. And the “semicircle of trees” lame explanation? Give me a break - Major Barf - even if this were true (which is an unbelievable reach) - WHY even risk hurting and offending the heroic families and their unbelievable losses by pursuing such an image?
This whole thing is rotten to the core, a slap in the face to our American heroes and America itself - shame on those in charge who sanction it. And, regarding a memorial to both this tragedy and the patriots who averted an even greater one - who the f**k cares about TREES as a representation???
There should be an enormous protest and outcry against this. These families, and our entire country, now have to grieve twice.
btt
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