Flight 93 Crescent of Embrace Remains Unchanged
Despite the outrage of the American public over the planned memorial to those who lost their lives fighting terrorists who hijacked their plane on 9/11/2001, the Flight 93 Memorial does not appear to have changed. The “Crescent of Embrace” design still remains on winning architect Paul Murdoch’s site, as well as the official Flight 93 Memorial site. On neither of these sites is any change mentioned or shown to the original design. Murdoch’s site does not indicate that any changes or “refinements” will be forthcoming. To refresh memories, the problem with the design was and is the Islamic crescent symbol. The memorial to the American citizens who appear to have thwarted Islamic terrorists from completing their plan to crash the commercial airliner into the White House deteriorated into a memorial to the terrorists—not to those who tried to stop them. Far beyond a slap in the face to the United States, American citizens who died protecting their country are being marginalized. Instead, it is the terrorists who are being commemorated. The totality of this abomination is staggering.
To be fair, I again contacted Chris Martin—Public Relations contact for the memorial project—to determine why there was nothing included on the official Flight 93 Memorial site, as to any change in the memorial’s design. My direct question was “Nothing seems to have changed nor is there any indication that the memorial will differ from [its] original design. Do you have any information or comments on this?” Mr. Martin’s response was: “The refinement process is still underway. The designer and the partner organizations are working together to refine various portions of the 2,200 acre site. We anticipate an announcement regarding these various refinements in the coming weeks.” Conspicuously absent from Martin’s response is any indication of the replacement of the “Crescent of Embrace”. This patently begs the question: “What are they refining?”
Perhaps I’ve just become too jaded over the years. But, trusting ambiguous answers to rather straightforward questions no longer seems the best course to follow. Also, the original National Forest Service (NFS) contact, Joanne Hanley, doesn’t appear to be listed anywhere—anymore. Note: In September, you flooded her email-box to the point that it was inoperable. Good show!
In fact, there does not appear to be anyone currently identified by the NFS, who is in charge of the project from the government’s end. My guess is that they don’t want to again receive thousands of emails and phone calls similar to those they received last month. However, below is a link to the NFS’ main contact site. To give all involved the benefit of the doubt, perhaps the design will change. But, in order to keep their feet to the fire and better ensure the Islamic crescent isn’t used my strong suggestion is that as many of us as possible call and write them, to inform the caretakers of this very important project that we haven’t forgotten.
We also need to powerfully and consistently let them know that we’re still watching and that we will not accept any “honors” to the ones who attacked us. Doing so would be both appalling to those who died and a strong indication to the terrorists that we believe they were right. Neither of these is even remotely acceptable.
http://www.fs.fed.us/contactus/
http://www.flight93memorialproject.org/
http://www.paulmurdocharchitects.com/
To be fair, I again contacted Chris Martin—Public Relations contact for the memorial project—to determine why there was nothing included on the official Flight 93 Memorial site, as to any change in the memorial’s design. My direct question was “Nothing seems to have changed nor is there any indication that the memorial will differ from [its] original design. Do you have any information or comments on this?” Mr. Martin’s response was: “The refinement process is still underway. The designer and the partner organizations are working together to refine various portions of the 2,200 acre site. We anticipate an announcement regarding these various refinements in the coming weeks.” Conspicuously absent from Martin’s response is any indication of the replacement of the “Crescent of Embrace”. This patently begs the question: “What are they refining?”
Perhaps I’ve just become too jaded over the years. But, trusting ambiguous answers to rather straightforward questions no longer seems the best course to follow. Also, the original National Forest Service (NFS) contact, Joanne Hanley, doesn’t appear to be listed anywhere—anymore. Note: In September, you flooded her email-box to the point that it was inoperable. Good show!
In fact, there does not appear to be anyone currently identified by the NFS, who is in charge of the project from the government’s end. My guess is that they don’t want to again receive thousands of emails and phone calls similar to those they received last month. However, below is a link to the NFS’ main contact site. To give all involved the benefit of the doubt, perhaps the design will change. But, in order to keep their feet to the fire and better ensure the Islamic crescent isn’t used my strong suggestion is that as many of us as possible call and write them, to inform the caretakers of this very important project that we haven’t forgotten.
We also need to powerfully and consistently let them know that we’re still watching and that we will not accept any “honors” to the ones who attacked us. Doing so would be both appalling to those who died and a strong indication to the terrorists that we believe they were right. Neither of these is even remotely acceptable.
http://www.fs.fed.us/contactus/
http://www.flight93memorialproject.org/
http://www.paulmurdocharchitects.com/
19 Comments:
You know, now that you mention it ...
if I turn my head just so and look at the World War II Memorial, it resembles a swastika.
It should be razed immediately.
Another strong indication that libs will argue with conservatives over anything and everything.
This should be an issue that both could unite upon. It is neither a conservative nor a lib position. But, it is American.
Minnesota Mom
Putting the crescent on these memorials is like putting the swastika on the holocaust memorials or the Japanese sun symbol on WWII memorials.
These people definitely have an agenda……..no more “USA” or “American” memorials. They want to universalize these memorials.
A REAL SHAME ON YOU to these government employees/contractors, who are paid by OUR tax dollars to do US in.
I looked at the Forest Service website through the link. These guys are amazing! They are so busy defending a bad decision rather than changing it. If the crescent was not an Islamic symbol, then I could see how an embrace of trees would be appropriate. But it is, and those who attacked us on September 11, 2001 were Muslims, motivated by Sura 9.5 and other such teachings of their religion.
Just get rid of the crescent, that is all we ask.
I have to wonder:
1. Why they came up with the crescent idea in the first place
and
2. Why they're fighting so hard to keep it
With the help of the ACLU, CAIR has become quite strong in the US, lately.
I'm a staunchly pro-war conservative, who was outraged at the attempt to turn the New York memorial into an opportunity for anti-American propaganda. But having visited the Crescent website, I really don't have a problem with this memorial. It's not exactly my cup of tea. I'd have wanted a granite marker with the names of the heroes, the date and the words "Let's Roll." Nothing more. But it seems to me that the proposed monument's resemblance to the Islamic symbol is mostly in the eyes of some beholders. Looked at in itself, it's just not all that bad.
i am a stunchly antiwar liberal who supported the ifc in nyc, but i think its apparrent that this memorial resembles the islamic crecent. and can identify no other motivation but to transform a memorial to americans into a memorial to the people who slew them.
Call the Waaaaambulance! Someone's offended!
1st poster:
no. you see, the wwii memorial doesn't resemble a swaztica at all.
on the other hand, if you were to ask somebody who knew nothing but the english language to describe the flt. 93 memorial, they'd tell you its a "red crescent".
a word about the wwii memorial: the residents of camp casey were seen using its fountains to wash their assholes. classy.
Did anyone else notice that on the Flight 93 Memorial Project page that if you want to contact someone you can't even email? And that the contact is "Superintendent"? Some weasel doesn't even want anyone to know who the heck runs the website.
I find it totally weird how they don't even MENTION that many people absolutely hate the design, including many of the family members. In fact, the website makes it sound like all the families involved loved it. Yet I actually heard one of the wives on the news complaining about how she wasn't given a chance to have input on the design. How pathetic is that?
A ring with a gap isnt a crescent.
You wackos are sounding like those hysterical muslims who see the word 'allah' in an ice-cream label and declare jihad.
Here's a site with Chris Martin's info. Chris is mentioned in the column and appears to be the PR guy for the project.
http://www.prnewswire.com/
mnr/flight93/22605/
"I'm a staunchly pro-war conservative, who was outraged at the attempt to turn the New York memorial into an opportunity for anti-American propaganda. But having visited the Crescent website, I really don't have a problem with this memorial."
See my article after visiting the memorial:
http://rightwingnation.com/index.php/2005/10/01/293/
Rightwingprof:
In your article, you wrote: "There is no crescent of red maples—though if you flew over it, no doubt the trees that naturally line the valley would look like a crescent. I think the red maples were part of the proposed design, which has been withdrawn."
No. Neither the maples NOR thye crescent design have been withdrawn.
That's one of the PROBLEMS.
Another problem is that the memorial is STILL called the "Crescent of Embrace". Thus far, NOTHING has been changed.
Ed
"A ring with a gap isnt a crescent."
It's called the "Crescent Of Embrace"...
There ain't a whole lot of interpretation needed here. It is a crescent. It is called a crescent. The crescent is as much a symbol of the Islamo-Fascisists as the Cross is to Christians.
There ain't a whole lot of interpretation needed here. It is a crescent. It is called a crescent. The crescent is as much a symbol of the Islamo-Fascisists as the Cross is to Christians.
You got it, bud!
Proud Texas
Lets make a memorial to the civil rights era. We can make a statue of a Klansman carrying a rope and a cross and patting a little black girl on the head. They could be standing in the middle of a dirt road and we could call it "Crossroads, the road to recovery" These people are sick. Sick, sick, sick.
Lets make a memorial to the civil rights era. We can make a statue of a Klansman carrying a rope and a cross and patting a little black girl on the head. They could be standing in the middle of a dirt road and we could call it "Crossroads, the road to recovery" These people are sick. Sick, sick, sick.
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