Flight 93 hijacked - again {D-Day memorial called the 'Swastika of Embrace.'?]

Jerusalem Post ^ | 9-15-05 | MARK STEYN

[samadams2000]

Well? Are just gonna let it happen?

[SJackson]

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[kingu]

Just as good a read the third time as the first. Some good conversations in the other threads too.

[msnimje]

They have already backtracked due to all the outrage. They are going to do away with the "memorial to the Hijackers"

[Dog]

Where did you hear that news?

[muawiyah]

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.

[Prime Choice]

[Texas_Jarhead]

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.

[FormerACLUmember]

The evil crescent of Islam points of course to Mecca.

[Reactionary]

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.

[msnimje]

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003543.htm

[andy58-in-nh]

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.

[chicagoray38]

Goodbye memorial

[Prime Choice]

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.

[Siouxz]

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.

[Stu Cohen]

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.

[livius]

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.

[Prime Choice]

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"!

[ElkGroveDan]

That's a really well-written piece.