"Apples and oranges."
How so? were these people, although civilians, not fighting a
war in every sense of the word just as WWII vets? I think this is not apples and oranges, but an apt comparison. Sure, there may be other uses for the crecent symbol, but in this case it is more than bad taste, It is an Islamic symbol, and it is a slap in the face of every American. Now go eat yer croissant.
1 I don't like the thing. It says nothing about what happened there.
2 It is an Islamic symbol. So we should ban all crescent shaped object?
3 Today in history
1683 A combined Austrian and Polish army defeats the Turks at Kahlenberg and lifts the siege on Vienna, Austria. The severed head of Kara Mustapha, Turkish grand vizier, was preserved by Austria as a souvenir of the siege of Vienna.
1683 Cappuccino first made. Turks left behind sacks of coffee at Vienna which the Christians found too bitter, so they sweetened it with honey and milk and named the drink cappuccino after the Capuchin order of monks to which d'Aviano belonged. An Austrian baker created a crescent-shaped roll, the Kipfel, to celebrate the victory. Empress Maria Theresa later took it to France where it became the croissant.