Posted on 07/31/2011 3:12:14 PM PDT by Enchante
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) The western Pennsylvania site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after passengers confronted hijacking terrorists during the Sept. 11 attacks almost a decade ago is being marked by a gigantic boulder.
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a decade later and all we've got for a memorial to the heroes of Flight 93 is a big rock????
It is a national disgrace, a moral disgrace, that we cannot manage a proper memorial to the heroes of Flight 93 in a decade since that event.
Exactly what I was thinking...
Why not just make it a replica of the Kaaba? (/sarc)
What happened to that abominable crescent plan? i hope that’s gone for good.
and Cresent Moon
The terrorists won. Spectacularly.
I thought they were going to build a crescent shaped memorial.
10 years and all we’ve got for a memorial is a big rock.... unreal
What did you expect? A giant cresent moon?
That will come later after our heroic congresscritters have allowed sharia law to become established.
If it crushed the crescent, it’s a victory boulder.
The public didn’t want the crescent shaped memorial, so they got a huge boulder.
This is life under the Obummer Regime, we must get used to it.
You mean plans have been abandoned to build a crescent shrine commemorating Islam’s triumph over American infidels?
It appears as though the Islamofascists’ Victory Trophy Mosque at Ground Zero is going to be completed before any of the memorials to the Americans they murdered will ever be completed. What a disgrace.
Give them time. Before long it will have it's own "Dome."
well that’s true, a rock is infinitely better than that crescent design
It’s better than what commissioning a monumental artist would produce: A couple of fake waterfalls with a list of names etched underneath, like the WTC memorial. Big boulder can later be replaced. Fake waterfalls are forever.
“Cresent Moon”
Crescent moons, pink hearts, and green clovers. They’re always after me lucky charms. I’ll hijack a plane and get away. Oops. The passengers have revolted. CRASH! Lost his lucky charms, tragically delicious.
looks like we’re still going to get a version of the crescent, what they are calling a “Bowl” area of the final memorial:
http://www.nps.gov/flni/photosmultimedia/design-images.htm
It’s just that our country can no longer walk and chew gum, or complete something in under 10 years, so it’s only “Phase I” that is expected to be completed in time for the 10th Anniversary.
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