Flight 93 memorial - at what price?

Examiner.com ^ | May 11, 2009 | Bruce McQuain

[McQ]

Almost anyone who reads this remembers the brave passengers of flight 93, who, on 9/11, overpowered the hijackers on their flight and caused the airplane to crash in a Pennsylvania field instead of the White House or Capital.

Certainly we would all agree that those brave souls should be memorialized. But do you imagine any of them would want their memorial for selfless sacrifice to come at the price of their fellow American’s property?

Can anyone explain why a memorial to these brave Americans must be 2,200 acres in size and force property owners in the area where the airplane happened to crash to give up their property to satisfy the plans and demands of the government?

[Zevonismymuse]

We don’t need 2000 acres...we can keep them in our hearts and in our history books. A simple statue or bronze plaque would only take up a few feet.

[Hodar]

2,200 acres = 3.4375 square miles

This is utterly insane.

[hoosierham]

To hide the evidence of the shootdown?

Looking for flame-resistant suit...

Seriously,at the same time the government is "developing" Civil War battlefields into housing and golf courses?!!!

Unless someone plans a money-making memorial mall,I'd think an acre or two would be plenty.

[spintreebob]

4 planes were hijacked. On 3 planes, the passengers and crew patiently waited for the gubmint to do something.

On 1 plane the passengers acted as the MILITIA and took matters into their own hands to thwart the bad guys.

The gubmint cannot allow that lesson learned to get out. But cynically turning it into a highly visible gubmint project they can’t obscure the truth of the only way to beat the terrorists.

Terrorists will not stop when they die. They will stop when they think that their mission will not be successful.

[nothingnew]

I would say it's just another land grab by the Feds. That's all it is in my mind.

Wait for the Bammy Statues and parks and roads.

FMCDH(BITS)

[andonte]

It’s happening because sob-story liberals are in charge. That’s how we end up with candlelight vigils and moments of silence and “pools of reflection” and other such squishy nonsense.

Instead, we should be developing weapons and plans to kill terrorists with bullets fired into their brains.

[GBA]

Unless they have changed the memorial’s design since the last time I saw it, it looks more like we are building a monument to islam than a memorial for Flt. 93. Our tax dollars at work in service of our misplaced sensibilities.

[Cicero]

You know, I think I agree with this. I hadn’t really clicked how LARGE this memorial was going to be.

We have a memorial on our land—a granite monument with a bronze plaque marking the site of the first house built in this town. We own the land, but we’re happy to have the descendants who put up the monument or other neighbors come in and maintain it. And in fact, I have been maintaining it myself, pulling up weeds, pruning the old apple trees nearby, and so forth.

A granite monument, a plaque with the names, maybe a half acre surrounding it, and some sort of right-of way out to the nearest road should suffice for this Flight 93 monument and the brave passengers who tackled the hijackers.

I don’t know why the property owners won’t sell. Possibly because it’s family land or someone’s farm. Possibly because there are speculators who bought the land from the original owners in cahoots with the gov planners and want a big profit. In either case, just don’t take the land, and justice will be done.

Also, I don’t think any of us are too fond of that crescent moonscape pointing toward Mecca, no matter how many excuses they make for it.

[stevie_d_64]

It seems to me the people who need the most reminding of what happened that day are elected officials in Washington D.C. who are exploiting this day in the most disrespectful manner...

A memorial plaque over the doors to both the house and senate chambers would be most appropriate in my opinion...

And putting one up to the entrance to the Oval Office might be a nice thing as well...

Those to be never taken down...Ever...

[ScreamingFist]

I assume the memorial will be that large because the debris field covered 3-4 miles......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZekosYOmXc&;

[Kartographer]

"4 planes were hijacked. On 3 planes, the passengers and crew patiently waited for the gubmint to do something."

You said it! That's is exactly the spirit of the tea parties (or as I call them Patriot Parties). We don't wait for the 'guberment' to do things for us! And if you think about it the precentage is about right 3/4 of Americans are 'sheeple' wanting the 'guberment' to come bail them out. The actions of Flight 93 were the actions of true Patriots, the saw the acted that's the spirit we need to restore our Republic as the Founders meant it to be 'The Spirit of 93' and the 'Spirit of 76'! I plan to buy a Flight 93 flag for the next Party and will wave it proudly in honor of the brave Minutemen and women of Flight 93!

[RobinOfKingston]

Nearly 10 years on, I vote we dispense with another monument that will be built with tax money, kept up by tax money and maintained by tax money absorbing employees who vote overwhelmingly for the evil end of the political spectrum. Put a plaque up and move on.

[svcw]

Why does it have to be so big?
A couple of acres, a plague, a bench - I mean really why so big?

[sportutegrl]

WDW’s Magic Kingdom is only 107 acres.

[chris_in_nj]

Thanks Kart - kind words about the people on the plane.

Chris Driscoll
Son of Patrick “Joe” Driscoll, Passenger on Flight 93

[exit82]

Obama has a similar flag.

No words, but the number is “57” on it.

[Cyber Liberty]

In all fairness to the folks on the 3 flights who did nothing...up until 9/11/01, getting your plane hijacked meant the worst that would happen is you get to spend a few hours on the tarmac in Pittsburgh. The folks on Flight 93 got medieval on the hijackers only after they found about about the other three planes.

[Steve Van Doorn]

The “tower of Voices” seems to face Mecca off by 0.1 deg. http://www.crescentofbetrayal.com/VerifyingMeccaOrientation.htm

[marron]

We don’t need a 2000 acre park to commemorate anything. We just need to get the people who ordered it. We got Saddam. We need to get the short list of people around Bin Ladin too, Zawahiri and the rest.

In fact I think any kind of a park at all will do them an injustice. They were brave people, ordinary American brave people. This country is their monument.