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Flight 93 hijacked - again {D-Day memorial called the 'Swastika of Embrace.'?]
Jerusalem Post ^
| 9-15-05
| MARK STEYN
Posted on 09/15/2005 4:20:43 PM PDT by SJackson
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:20:44 PM PDT
by
SJackson
To: SJackson
Well? Are just gonna let it happen?
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:22:08 PM PDT
by
samadams2000
(Pitchforks and Lanterns..with a smiley face!)
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:22:40 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(“I worry that I've seen this movie before”, Rep. Mark Kirk on aid to palestinians.)
To: SJackson
Just as good a read the third time as the first. Some good conversations in the other threads too.
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:23:23 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Draft Fmr Senator Fred Thompson for '08.)
To: SJackson
They have already backtracked due to all the outrage. They are going to do away with the "memorial to the Hijackers"
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:25:49 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(CNN - Constant Negative Nonsense)
To: msnimje
Where did you hear that news?
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:26:46 PM PDT
by
Dog
( We haven't forgotten you Commander Michael Speicher)
To: SJackson
Given any memorial, it's usually possible to read into it anything you want.
The designer unfortunately used a "trigger word".
Unfortunately, even if he'd called it the "Crater" rather than the "Crescent", we'd be photoshopping symbolic meanings into it 24/7.
FDR was right about exactly one thing ~ the best memorial is a simple block of stone ~ carve something into it ~ maybe a name, or a bunch of names ~ put it beside the road for folks to look at.
They'll impute their own meanings to it, and it'll be there an awful lot longer than just about any other kind of memorial.
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:27:25 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
(/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
To: SJackson
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:28:14 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: Dog
There was an AP or Rooters article the other day about the architects changing the design. Of course the lead designer had to insult anyone who didn't embrace his masterpiece.
To: SJackson
The evil crescent of Islam points of course to Mecca.
To: SJackson
One a symbolic level, the Islamic crescent is "embracing" the dead, all right.
One can see that it's once again crushing the life out of innocent people. This "monument" is an obscenity.
To: Dog
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:33:11 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(CNN - Constant Negative Nonsense)
To: SJackson
Can we not do something about this abomination before it sears itself permanently into the landscape? A proper memorial is desperately needed. I'm not an architect, but I can envision a field of 40 white stars, each bearing the name of a passenger or crew member, set in a geometric pattern around a focal point - a soaring eagle, perhaps, as a tribute to the human spirit. Anything - as opposed to what is currently proposed - a craven whimper of surrender. They deserve better from us - they expected better from us.
To: Dog
To: msnimje; Dog
They haven't backtracked that much. They still have the same Leftist "architect" working on the memorial. And he's all snotty toward those who didn't like his tribute to Osama.
Expect that rat bastard to do ANOTHER backdoor tribute to terrorists.
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:35:37 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: msnimje
I know here in SW PA, there is getting to be quite an uproar over this. Today in the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat,I saw that they are changing the name to "Arc of Embrace." Didn't read the whole article, though, to see if they were actually changing the layout of it.
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:35:40 PM PDT
by
Siouxz
( Freepers are the best!!!)
To: samadams2000
NO MORE MEMORIALS PLEASE!!!
Cut our taxes instead.
Who cares about the design ... do your jobs. Protect the country and serve the citizens. The border would be a good place to start.
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:35:57 PM PDT
by
Stu Cohen
(Press '1' for English)
To: msnimje
They said they were going to alter it to reflect criticisms, but they didn't say exactly in what way. Personally, I think they're hoping the storm will die down, and then they'll come back with something even worse.
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:37:11 PM PDT
by
livius
To: chicagoray38; Dog
Goodbye memorial Hardly. It's more like Same S***, Same Sucker. Note the quote from the top of the article:
Designer Paul Murdoch said he is "somewhat optimistic" that the spirit of the design could be maintained."
In other words, they're keeping the same pro-Islamofascist idiot who designed the first abomination and he's intending to keep the "spirit of the design"!
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:37:49 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: SJackson
That's a really well-written piece.
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posted on
09/15/2005 4:40:37 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired!)
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