Posted on 09/11/2005 9:53:59 PM PDT by daviddennis
Four years ago to this day, United Airlines Flight 93 was flying over unremarkable farmland near Somerset, Pennsylvania. Inside the plane there was chaos, as the passengers started to organize their legendary resistance.
“Let’s Roll,” said Todd Beamer, as he and his fellows charged into the cockpit of the enormous jet. Here is where they and the other passengers are now resting forever.
This is not a political memorial. I see no racism, no attacks on Islam, just a moving tribute to a much-beloved group of people.
There has been a great controversy about the idea of a permanent memorial, a more formal building than the informal set of flags and tributes you see here. And yet somehow I think the flags and tributes came straight from the hearts of real people, both friends of the passengers and local residents bringing moving sympathy for those who died.
As a result, it seems fitting today to record the memorial as it is. Perhaps next year there will be a beautiful, soaring glossy structure over this place, but it will not be as moving as these simple tributes I saw today.
And so, without further ado, here they are: Pictures of the feelings and love of a people.
Your making that one up ;>
I agree with you what a POS name! How about something relating to "Let's Roll". I am so sick of this PC cr*p.
OMG-I thought this was a joke. It's true. I can't believe it. Have the families been made aware of what this thing really is? Disgusting. It has to be stopped. As another FReeper said- the people on flight 93 said the Lord's Prayer before they fought back. It should be in the shaped of a cross, if anything.
Email on this thread sent to Rush. Time to raise Holy H*ell while we can.
http://data2.itc.nps.gov/parkfeedback/sendemail.cfm?id=FLNI
Yes I did. And it worked just fine when I did. It's apparently not working now which is good. It means they got enough negative feedback to make them want to pull the link.
I just saw the Discovery Channel Show. I feel if this design is what these families want, it is their right without being marred by the rest of us complaining and trying to get it changed.
The mother of the flight attendent said she pictures her daughter and the others in God's arms. I suspect this is why the design appealed to them. It is an embrace and symbolizes God's arms cradling their loved ones.
Stone me if you wish, but I think these families are deserving of some peace.
That doesn't exactly resonate with moral authority. Hell, every absurdity has its champion...especially the idiot who created it.
"is an embrace and symbolizes God's arms cradling their loved ones."
Then why not have a picture of Jesus rather than (an Islam) crescent?
All that said, I believe this abomination is scheduled to go on public land. Therefore...
Especially since the heroes of Flight 93 recited the Lord's Prayer before they took on the murderous Islamists.
Looks like it's another case of we-should-offend-everyone-but-the-enemy idiocy.
Personally I think the families were duped. I think the "in joke" of the clump of trees as the star, pointing at Mecca, etc. was just that -- only for the libs to know until it was too late, and withheld from the families. From what I've read of the architect's writings, he is a *flaming* leftie and everything here looks to me like he (and anyone else involved in it) are using it for their personal political crusade. If the families approved it, I have to believe it's because they were kept in the dark as to its true purpose.
They disabled the feedback form on the website? I just used it day before yesterday...That link no longer works. :(
It still works and it is here
If it DID, here is what I intended to send them:
The proposed "Crescent of Embrace" is an ABOMINATION!
This is a truly TERRIBLE idea!!!!
I agree with THIS analysis:"There is a reason that the Pearl Harbor memorial does not call to mind the Rising Sun.RonDog
There is a reason that the Oklahoma City memorial does not prefigure a Ryder Truck."
Somebody has perpetrated a sick joke on these families. This thing was just unveiled on Sept. 7 so we need to speak loudly and clearly! Every flight flying into DC does not need to see the land of the free and the brave scorched with a muslim crescent.
No. Their opinions do not count more than everyone else's for something this large. They can do whatever they want if they keep it to 2' x 2'.
I've suggested leaving the crescent, provided it is impaled on the foot of a cross, the way you see it on top of the domes of churches St. Stephan of Moldova built to commemorate his victories over the Turks.
(Of course, if we incorporated an American eagle grasping the crescent in its talons, that would be fine with me, too.)
The form is still disabled. You can fill it out, but it does not transmit.
Actually it is possible the architect is just an idiot. Whatever your Google search turned up "crescent' is a fairly standard architectural term. In Britain, there are lots of Georgian period 'crescents': semicircular arrangements of townhouses around a curved street or park.
That being said, if it's not the architect, it's the Evil One at work, especially with the choice of orientation.
ACLU time? Religious symbols in public parks?
More proof of this guy being full of it. A plane flying from Shanksville, PA to DC is traveling southeast. Why then is the severed portion of the circle of tree oriented northeast and (golly gee, what a coincidence) why is the severed path oriented precisely in the direction of Mecca?
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