Posted on 09/12/2005 12:10:14 AM PDT by spycatcher
I've sent a voice mail to Ms Joanne Hanley -- Superintendent, Flight 93 National Memorial, asking just who they thought they were "honoring" when they came up with this disgusting POS.
You know what's "silly"?
Apparently not enough time on your hands is a problem -- take two seconds to use 'spell-check' next time...
That's "premise," friend.
Agreed.
Seems suspiciously "in-your-face" to plenty of us...
No need to get snippy about it. It looks more like the Washington monument than it does a minaret. That was the poster's point and my point in reply.
No Quarter
Note that the map displays an azimuth in keeping with your calculations.
Note also that the author's "azimuth" (124.8) and yours (55) add to 180 degrees -- suggesting that the author had it exactly backwards.
I agree. I just tire of all the people who do say it's crazy to see symbolic representation because they're demanding literal interpretation. So the star has to be an exact star or it doesn't count. Artists and architects don't work that way, especially if it's a potential political problem and they really want to get their concept past the jury.
It seems like the intent here was to envelop the area an a peaceful embrace of Islam, one that the architects thought was sufficiently abstract and secularized as to not be offensive, to heal the differences between America and Mecca.
I don't like this at all, and in fact, I think it is a slap in the face to the victims. However, are any of the families complaining? The freeper whose dad died on flight 93 isn't upset about it.
Butt ugly, if you ask me.
Think of the immediate and overwhelming negative reaction if Lebeskind proposed a crescent building of glass for the Ground Zero Memorial Gardens. But somehow it's ok for Paul Murdoch to build a red crescent in Shankesville?
Time for some good ol' FR activism...
Check out what they're planning in Pennsylvania, then let the National Park Service know how you feel.
Let's also get this out to our local papers so that more Americans are aware of this travesty.
Thanks for the ping!
It's gotta go.
Good graphics devolve.
So it's not the effect I would go for, were it up to me.
We're gonna disagree in how it can be interpreted. And ultimately:
It seems like the intent here was
It is going to come down to designer intent. And I don't know how we determine that. If we read the memorial site, your view of intent is not there. Again, it's still not my preferred intent. But they're not saying it's purpose is to try to "to heal the differences between America and Mecca" either.
Can we believe them? I dunno. In the end, perhaps the intent will be determined more by Americans who visit the memorial and who carry forth the spirit of those heroes, such as Todd Beamer, than by the shape of the memorial.
I can hope so anyway...
Crescents belong on outhouses, not memorials to murdered Americans!
Allah Akbar!
Another "wonderful" monument in the fine tradition of the International Freedom Center. Makes me sick...
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