A ROCK!!!
Dumb ROCK!!!
Posted on 07/31/2011 3:12:14 PM PDT by Enchante
Congress passed a law authorising a memorial just one year after 9/11. But the National Park Service and families of Flight 93’s victims spent nine years fighting to actually acquire the land for the memorial.
There is a temporary memorial of sorts at the site but at one point the park service was forced to move it after a mining company that owned the land attempted to get donations from visitors.
They and the families spent years arguing over the sale. In 2008 the federal government weighed in threatening to use eminent domain to take the land.
Several local coal companies caved and sold, but not before they had bickered with the park service over who would clean up the minerals left over from prior mining activities.
Then there was the design of the actual memorial. Several protesters led by a family member of Flight 93 complained the plans included hidden pro-Islamic messages.
It was finally given the go ahead in 2009 only to be halted by a New Jersey construction company who challenged the bidding process.
Then there was the small matter of raising the $50million needed.
That’s exactly what I was thinking, but couldn’t find a picture...on the whole interWebz!!
That’s pretty cool. I didn’t see it on the first look.
What a mess.
Erica: [closing narration] I never saw the Eckert Brothers again. In time, this war - like every other war - ended. But I never forgot. And I come to this place often, when no one else does.I couldn't find an image capture either but those who understand will have the appropriate image in their mind. GMTA, my FRiend.
[we see "Partisan Rock," with its memorial plaque, which she reads for us]
Erica: "... In the early days of World War 3, guerillas - mostly children - placed the names of their lost upon this rock. They fought here alone and gave up their lives, so that this nation should not perish from the earth."
I looked at the site. It looks like a Wal-Mart parking lot with out the litter and oil puddles.
There were just not enough Holders People onboard to keep them focussed on doing the right thing for 93.
Just like in the Mother Country, who the lions ate yesterday is olds news, time to move on.
Sadly, many of the American people seem to be content to feed their friends and neighbors to the alligator in hopes the beast will no longer be hungry when it gets around to them.
I believe the technical term for such behavior is “mental masturbation.”
Right, you can’t have a cross or a star of David there... you might “offend” the Muslims who KILLED them! See tagline.
Will this "boulder" be a meteorite?
‘Are you living in Fort Collins CO?’
Heh - - -
But seriously - remember the one we were all passing around about the patriotic stuff painted on that hugh rock somewhere in the westerly part of the US?
Kansas, Nebraska, can’t remember.
It was (hopefully still is) spectacular.
(Stone Flag Monument to Flt. 93)
Hope the families of Flight 93 like this.
I think it’s great and maybe all that is needed.
Or maybe add replicas with all the names - however many stone ‘flags’ of this design it takes.
Shouldn’t be a whole lot.
I think this is one time when we can ‘alter’ the design of our flag - - - (the ‘93’ in the Field Of Blue).
(Pardon me if I skipped anything on the monument - can’t read it all - - )
Are they relocating that rock in Mecca that the head wraps dance around?
Nearby..yes.
What’s the status of the gigantic Mosque the government is supposed to be building in Shanksville—the one that symbolically places the non-Muslim victims in Hell?
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