Posted on 09/09/2005 8:49:02 AM PDT by anti-infidel
Red "Crescent of Embrace" chosen for Flight 93 Memorial
An incredibly ill-conceived "gesture of healing and bonding." From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, with thanks to Charles.
WASHINGTON -- It will serve as a living tribute. With each wind, each breeze, a set of chimes housed in a 93-foot tower will create a different song in memory of the 40 people who sacrificed their lives trying to save the lives of others. Four years after United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a reclaimed strip mine near Shanksville, Somerset County, on Sept. 11, 2001, the design that will serve as the national memorial was unveiled here yesterday in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hall of Flags.
"Crescent of Embrace" will feature a Tower of Voices, containing 40 wind chimes -- one for each passenger and crew member who died -- and two stands of red maple trees that will line a walkway caressing the natural bowl shape of the land. Forty separate groves of red and sugar maples will be planted behind the crescent, and a black slate wall will mark the edge of the crash site, where the remains of those who died now rest.
As the black cloak that had hidden the winner was removed, a collective gasp came from those gathered, who then rose to their feet to applaud...
The winning designers, Paul and Milena Murdoch of Los Angeles, called being selected "an incredible honor."...
The idea of the Crescent of Embrace, Murdoch said, is to be a gesture of healing and bonding. The crescent marks the edge of the land, which will remain largely untouched...
What, no sword?
Why????
which F*ckin' Brain Sturgeon thunk this one up.
Barf.
So the mark of the Jihadists will forever emblazen our landscape. Is it time to cry for America yet...
Why did I post the pix, or why are they paying for this muslim symbol to be placed on the country side?
Or, why is the sky blue? ;-)
OMG.
Well, this design seems to be a fitting memorial for the muslims who died aboard Flt 93. The hijackers whose ashes are fused into the shale with those of their victims. Al'lah Akbar.
Was this the shape the terrorists who caused these brave souls' deaths would have wanted? Is this how low political correctness has sunk?
WTH???
A guy could slip in to thinking that while he was working to do right and provide for his family, very goofy people with wacked out agendas have slid in control of the media and arts...
Wait....Let me guess.
The creator of the crescent thought it was "sort of" reflective of America...
A CRESCENT anywhere near that memorial? Somebody must have been smoking something when they approved that design. What do the families of Flight 93 have to say about this?
It's about time we honored the one true religion. A religion of pease. Allah be praised.
Resgardless how you meant that, it is wrong. Allah is NOT great. Allah is a demon.
The hijackers were demon possessed murderers and animals.
To approve this memorial design is an abomination and must be undone.
If it was intended to honor victims of a bloody crescent, they might have something.
I understand that the designers and those who approved this designed WANTED to make a sword part of the Memorial.
However, as a compromise, they decided to leave some room for a hammer to go along with their sickle.
[sarcasm off]
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