[foundedonpurpose]

That link didn’t work, use this and go to birds eye view
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?q=map&mkt=en&FORM=HDRSC4#JnE9LnVzJTJibmF2eSUyYnNlYWwlMmJiYXJyYWNrcyUyYmNvcmluYWRvJTI1MmMlMmJDQSU3ZXNzdC4wJTdlcGcuMSZiYj01NC44OTcwMTkyOTU2ODElN2UtNjEuMjgxODA2OTQ1NSU3ZTE4LjA5NjA0ODQ5NzQ4NDUlN2UtMTIwLjQzMjE5NzU3MDU=

[UCANSEE2]

Well... it is a very stable design.

What’s it look like from the ground ?

[GladesGuru]

Linkee no workee.

[foundedonpurpose]

Ok try this, its across the street.
3238 Guadalcanal Rd # 18, San Diego, CA

[cripplecreek]

The story has been around for at least a year.

I don’t have any issues with it. Seems to be a shape that maximizes the usable space.

[Theoria]

I thought they fixed that one years ago.

[I see my hands]

Why would you post about a picture without posting the picture? Isn't that nuts?

[mnehring]

Old story, it wasn’t intentional and the Navy is changing it just to please the interwebs.
http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2007/09/26/google-maps-forces-navy-to-redesign-swastika-building/

[newzjunkey]

This isn’t fake. It happened, it’s an older building and the design has been addressed since people nothing better to do complained about it.

[I see my hands]

Cripes! Is this so hard?

[Responsibility2nd]

Old News..........

 

The Swastika Building

Thursday, 27th September 2007 by James Turnbull

Thanks to the power of Google Earth and the internet the US Navy have decided to spend as much as $600,000 on major alterations to a perfectly good barracks. The reason for the spend is that, when viewed on Google Earth, the building complex resembles a swastika.

 

 

 

[Deb]

You’ll probably get an email saying Barbara Walters is hosting a special honoring Jane Fonda as “Woman of the Year”. That one’s about 10 years old.

[real saxophonist]

Yeah, and the local courthouse, built in 1913, has swastika patterns in its ceiling.

If I cared enough, I'd post the 'Aliens' guy with the caption 'Nazis?'.

[DManA]

This has been bouncing around the internet since there’s been an internet. It’s shaped like a swastika. So what?

[x]

This comes up every few years here. There's also been a story about an Iranian airport building with a star of David on the roof and an Alabama retirement home with a swastika shape. I understand the Navy is trying to change the Coronado building's appearance so that it looks less like a Nazi symbol.

I don't know if I'd want to live in the retirement home, it even looks a little konzentrazionslagerisch:

[RaceBannon]

actually, old news, I remember hearing this in the late 70’s from sailors who were USS Okinawa and Belleau Wood

[SampleMan]

Sometimes a symbol vaguely reminiscent of a swastika is just a symbol vaguely reminiscent of a swastika.

[Foolsgold]

On the Colorado River Near Yuma, Click

[fish hawk]

Or, it could be the Native American pattern used on baskets and pottery depicting “good luck”. Depends on your prejudices and imagination.

[LucianOfSamasota]

Swastika

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The swastika (Sanskrit: स्वस्तिक) is an equilateral cross with four arms bent at right angles, in either a right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored, left-facing (卍) form. Earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient India as well as Classical Antiquity. Swastikas have also been used in various other ancient civilizations around the world. It remains widely used in Indian religions, specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, primarily as a tantric symbol to evoke shakti or the sacred symbol of auspiciousness. The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix. The swastika literally means "to be good".

In East Asia, when written left-facing (Chinese: 卍; Wade–Giles: wan), the swastika is a Chinese character, its entry on Kangxi Dictionary, published in 1716, defined it as "synonym of myriad, used mostly in Buddhist classic texts"[1], by extension, the word later evolved to represent eternity and Buddhism.

Following a brief surge of popularity in Western culture, a right-facing, diagonally rotated swastika was adopted as a symbol of the Nazi Party of Germany in 1920. The Nazis used the swastika as a symbol of the Aryan race. After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s, a right-facing and rotated swastika was incorporated into the Nazi party flag, which was made the state flag of Germany during Nazism. Hence, the swastika has become strongly associated with Nazism and related ideologies such as fascism and white supremacism in the Western world and is now largely stigmatized there. Notably, it has been outlawed in Germany if used as a symbol of Nazism. Many modern political extremists and Neo-Nazi groups such as the Russian National Unity use stylized swastikas or similar symbols.

In the East however, as a religious symbol of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, the swastika continues to be quite commonly used.