[martin_fierro]

This proposed monument design is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard of. It's got to be stopped.

[guitarnick40]

They ought to change this things name to Osama's folly if ya ask me. The only thing I see when I look at that is Osama sitting on a prayer rug laffin his camel callused a-- off at us.

[Ruth A.]

The Vietnam "wall" Memorial marked the end of inspiring memorials: they are all copies, but they lean to remember the enemy now. At best, the designer is copying and trying to hide it. Hence, an arc instead of a V shape.

Showing all the trees red pushed me over the edge. That color coupled with the arc seem deliberate. Does anyone remember the huge flap that Hart inspired by using a crescent shape on an outhouse in the B.C. comic strip. That was a comic strip and not a memorial, but the lefties sounded long and loud about that.

It is sacred ground, but these people died more than merely die. They were the first fighters against terrorism on September 11th 2001.

[illumini]

oh please

[mo]

IMHO this issue, regardless of Architect Murdoch's beleifs, conduct, patriotism......etc , proves there is a Satan and that he indeed is embodied in Allah.

[LikeLight]

Horrific BTTT!

[thinking]

I find the design, makes me uneasy, by just looking at....

The tentacles of embrace, are particularly troublesome, it appears to me to the open mouth of roaring lion (Islam), to walk into an area that has only one exit, that which was used to enter, is even more disturbing......all monuments in our western sociality reach for the stars, point to heaven, are reaching out,not circular. Circular design, forces turning ones back, on the meaning of the memorial in order to depart the area, and to "embrace" or face the "new" horizon, which is to the east....

[Criminal Number 18F]

This proposed monument design is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard of.

I looked at the other four finalists -- since, apparently, removed from the commission website -- and as hamfisted as this is, it was the best of the lot.

One of them looked like a smaller, tawdry version of the Stonehenge ruins. One of them looked like a bunch of luggage tags on a fence, because it was, well, a bunch of luggage tags on the damned fence.

While the five finalists were shown to the public, the many other entries were not. That's just the arts community, looking out for the public's best interests, ya know...

The irony is that the enabling legislation says that this is supposed to memorialize the heroism of the heroes of 93. Every single one of the finalists addressed only their deaths.

This one, also, has no words of praise, no recognition for their heroism. Just, "hey, a bunch of people died." Unless it actually is, by design, a memorial not to those that fought for life, but to their murderers.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F