Posted on 09/11/2005 9:53:59 PM PDT by daviddennis
Four years ago to this day, United Airlines Flight 93 was flying over unremarkable farmland near Somerset, Pennsylvania. Inside the plane there was chaos, as the passengers started to organize their legendary resistance.
“Let’s Roll,” said Todd Beamer, as he and his fellows charged into the cockpit of the enormous jet. Here is where they and the other passengers are now resting forever.
This is not a political memorial. I see no racism, no attacks on Islam, just a moving tribute to a much-beloved group of people.
There has been a great controversy about the idea of a permanent memorial, a more formal building than the informal set of flags and tributes you see here. And yet somehow I think the flags and tributes came straight from the hearts of real people, both friends of the passengers and local residents bringing moving sympathy for those who died.
As a result, it seems fitting today to record the memorial as it is. Perhaps next year there will be a beautiful, soaring glossy structure over this place, but it will not be as moving as these simple tributes I saw today.
And so, without further ado, here they are: Pictures of the feelings and love of a people.
I'd rather have a HUGE cross of cedar erected there. Then it can be seen and appreciated from the land and the air. And let all who cannot abide by it suffer every time they pass it.
And we're still supposed to believe it's not a slap in the face to the Americans who gave their lives to take out the Islamists on Flight 93?
God must surely forgive these people...for God obviously made them idiots.
GET THAT DAMNED CRESCENT OUTTA THERE! Who's in charge of this thing? Those were American Heroes who died on that plane. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
I would dare to say that if they insist on using this design, that vandalism will be a problem.
I hadn't seen that juror quote before. Thanks.
There needs to be a call to all FReepers and other conservative websites out there to pound this issue and get it out there for Americans to see for themselves.
WTF is happening in this country?! First, that idiodic WTC design and now this! Are we playing into the hands of the terrorists and "love thy neighbor" leftist wackos?! Are we forfeiting our pride in our country in favor of political correctness? I cannot believe the American people will let both of these memorials stand as they are being intended.
I'm outraged and sickened!
On the contrary, I would instead continue to honor our fallen as I always have and make it a point to avoid the abomination at all costs...the same as I'm going to do with the WTC memorial, should it turn out to be the mewling pukefest the Leftists have in mind.
They disabled the feedback form on the website? I just used it day before yesterday...
It's called liberalism.
I concur. That's why I'm protesting this as fervently as I can. That's also why I made the graphic I did (the one to which you originally responded). This issue needs MAJOR freeping. It simply cannot stand.
I share your angst over the mess this nation has got itself into with political correctness run amuck. I think it's time we told the losers and the fringe to take their idiocy and shove it. It's about time the majority ruled for a change.
Try using it now. It is deliberately non-functional. The feedback script has been removed.
Yes, it truly is a form a psychosis now. They have no sense whatsoever.
It still works and it is here
It kind of looks like one of those old Soviet memorials. Not too surprising since this cockamamie design was thought up by a lefty.
I filled out my suggestion Email form for the Nat'l Parks re the Flight 93 Memorial and when I hit Submit, it said the site can't be located.
I copied the postal address and will send it that way if need be.
Same thing here. EVERYBODY BOMBARD THEM WITH SNAIL MAIL!! Send copies to your Senators and Congressmen and whoever else can get this stopped! I'll add more to this in my copy:
Dear Sirs,
WHO'S THE BONEHEAD WHO CAME UP WITH THIS DESIGN? How much did that travesty cost, and from where did the money to pay for such an abomination to the memory of brave American heroes come? WHO'S THE BONEHEAD WHO OK'D THIS DESIGN? My outrage at this spectacle of indecency knows no bounds! HOW DARE YOU? This will NOT stand!
One more. The small clump of trees near the number 4 in the drawing is in the same relative position as the star next to the crescent in the flags of many islamic countries.
Check out #53.
A crescent of maple trees is one aspect of the 2,000 acre "Crescent of Embrace" memorial site.
The competition was funded through the generous support of the Heinz Endowments and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The selected Memorial was designed by Paul Murdoch Architects of Los Angeles, California with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects of Charlottesville, Virginia. Specializing in architecture, urban design and interiors, Paul Murdoch Architects’ experience includes master planning, architecture and interior architecture for institutional, governmental, commercial and residential building types. Nelson Byrd Woltz provides a broad range of landscape architectural design services including town, corporate, residential and park planning in the United States and abroad.
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For the Murdochs, their design evolved all at once, they said, and nothing in it is more important than anything else.
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.
One of the important attributes of the winning design, Murdoch said, is that it allows the memorial to continually grow and change. The maple trees that create the crescent will be planted at just 15 or 20 feet tall. They won't reach maturity for 40 or 50 years.
"It will be open and evolving as long as it's there," he said. "Our memorial is not about offering explanation for what happened, but to allow people to come to terms with it."
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