Here you go!
Posted on 09/14/2005 4:54:48 PM PDT by jimbo123
Where is this field full of swastika crosses???
I guess we are smarter than him, aren't we?
Just look for the nearest Palestinian cemetary...
Ditto...
And how about this BS?:
"We called it a crescent because it was a curving land form. We called it 'Crescent of Embrace' because of the symbolic gesturing of embracing this place," Murdoch said. "There's no desire to make this a divisive memorial."
I'd like to apply a vice-like "embrace" to Murdoch's neck as more than a "symbolic gesture."
And if you don't like the new one, you will be sent to sensitivity training.
Photoshop, like the Rising Sun on the Arizona Memorial. It's how lib-uh-rhuls would have done it then if they could have...
A change of architects would be a good start.
"Not good enough. We don't WANT to "keep the spirit of the design." "
PING!
Why don't they just preserve the makeshift memorial that ordinary folks built there in the days, weeks and months following 9/11? That was a real "people's monument".
But that's still very interesting. Who noted, on 9/11 and the subsequent furor, that Flight 93's bearing was straight towards Mecca???
No one that I know of. Was it?
If the missing piece of the circle is supposed to indicate the bearing of the plane, then it was, wasn't it?
A circle would be good.
I heard the same architect wanted to put a Nazi swastika monument at Dachau as a "sign of reconciliation."
If that jerk wants to build a crescent then let him go live in Iran.
Look who is handling approval and fundraising for the memorial...
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/12584888.htm
"Flight 93 was the first battle won in the war on terrorism. ... It is now part of the fabric of our nation," said Joanne Hanley of the National Park Service, which will manage the memorial.
Hanley, superintendent of four Park Service sites in western Pennsylvania, and Interior Secretary Gale Norton must approve the design.
Attending the announcement ceremony was Tom Ridge, the former Pennsylvania governor and secretary of Homeland Security, who, with retired Gen. Tommy Franks, is leading the campaign to raise $30 million for the memorial. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has donated about $10 million.
"I think the design itself is very simple and elegant. I love the power," Ridge said of what he called "a very sacred and very special place."
Asked whether he thought fundraising would be difficult, he said, "Americans respond with enormous generosity at times like this, whether it's to help hurricane victims or to memorialize this very special group of Americans who gave their lives."
So design and arc shaped memorial and call it the Arc of Remembrance.
Here you go!
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