FLIGHT 93, RE-HIJACKED

http://www.steynonline.com/index2.cfm?edit_id=21 ^ | 09/13/05 | Mark Steyn

[Sweetjustusnow]

Everyone needs to denounce this so called memorial. Get on board and call the NPS and your Representatives!

[Rutles4Ever]

Money quote: " A culture that goes to such perverse lengths to disdain its heroes cannot survive and doesn’t deserve to.
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[Redbob]

Todd Beamer and company were such men that the word "hero" is vastly inadequate.

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"“Someone, someday, must have the courage not to hit back but to look them in the eye and say, ‘I love you’"

I don't have that kind of courage:
mine runs more towards, "Here's a 225-grainer with your name on it!"

[Paleo Conservative]

Most of us are all but resigned to losing New York's Ground Zero memorial to a pile of non-judgmental if not explicitly anti-American pap: The minute you involve big-city politicians and foundations and funding bodies and "artists" you're on an express chute to the default mode of the cultural elite,

I wouldn't write that one off yet.

[Yo-Yo]

Watching a program on the History Channel, all of the drawings and models of the memorial had RED trees in a crescent shape around Flight 93's Ground Zero.

[spycatcher]

And to top it all off...It points towards Mecca

[OrangeDaisy]

“The Era of Osama lasted about an hour and a half or so, from the time the first plane hit the tower to the moment the General Militia of Flight 93 reported for duty.”

This quote gives me chills. If we ever take away the right of the "General Militia" to report for duty, we will relegated to history books as a bullet point on the list of defunct empires.

[Sisku Hanne]

When I watched The Flight That Fought Back and saw those Islamic terrorists slap on red headbands it made me physically ill.
No one has yet explained why this "crescent" has to be RED or why it aligns with Mecca...very deliberate choices in the design.
I propose using yellow sugar maples and completing the circle with plantings, so it becomes a "golden halo" of embrace to those who fought the first battle.

[Cool Multiservice Soldier]

I don't have that kind of courage: mine runs more towards, "Here's a 225-grainer with your name on it!"

I'm in agreement with you on that one. I'd like to use a 700-grainer though.

[xrp]

Wait, who is funding the memorial?

If it is private charities, I don't see what good it will do to call our Congressmen/women.

[princess leah]

I thought the Memorial should be named "Let's Roll" and the statute an AMERICAN EAGLE with its CLAWS UP and its wings spread full out!

[Congressman Billybob]

One of the pleasures of Marj Steyn's writing is that his articles usually contain two, three or four money quotes. So does this one. I'm not quarreling your choice, just suggesting that there are several other candidates for that award as seen by me and others.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Another Ignorant Actor Spouts Off"

My latest Limbaugh link is to the article that first appeared on FreeRepublic at the link above.

[goosie]

When I watched "The Flight That Fought Back", I was waiting for some positive reference to Todd Beamer. It looked as if they painted as weak. They did show him saying lets roll but that is the only really good thing I saw about him.

[Congressman Billybob]

State and local authorities have zoning and permit authority over this site and memorial. The federal government may also have a direct roll, if federal money is involved. Bottom line: if enough citizens get mad enough, no politician will dare to let this project proceed as planned by this block-headed architect.

John / Billybob

[JulieRNR21]

I thought the Memorial should be named "Let's Roll" and the statute an AMERICAN EAGLE with its CLAWS UP and its wings spread full out!

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My thoughts as well.

Please take action:

Ms Joanne Hanley
Superintendent - Flight 93 National Memorial

EMAIL Joanne_Hanley@nps.gov

Phone: (814) 443-4557

FAX (814)443-2180

[Jeff F]

Wait, who is funding the memorial?

Taken from the official project's website: "The Flight 93 National Memorial Design Competition has been funded through the generous support of the Heinz Endowments and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation."

[GrandEagle]

‘I love you’
How about some tough love? I think 60 days around the clock B52's would work.
Nothing says "I tough love you" like a B52's load of 500 puunders....

[GrandEagle]

‘I love you’
How about some tough love? I think 60 days around the clock B52's would work.
Nothing says "I tough love you" like a B52's load of 500 puunders pounders....

[GrandEagle]

Heinz Endowments
AHH HA!
Turning on the nation seems to run in the family....
I guess Hanoi Jane will preside at the opening ceremony wearing a turban.

[backhoe]

Wait, who is funding the memorial? Taken from the official project's website: "The Flight 93 National Memorial Design Competition has been funded through the generous support of the Heinz Endowments and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation."

Good God! Some old opposition research:

-The Prince of Tides- Bush ads, Kerry ads, the Tides Foundation, and so much more--

For example:

Lots of info about the Tides Foundation-

The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group [Mrs. Kerry Is A Commie]

 

More supporting information can be found here: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/s_169770.html