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By adducing it as in some way parallel to the PA crash site, I assume you are suggesting that.

No. I'm pointing out that in "Western Culture" (and in fact in many cultures) vertical objects arranged in an arc or curve, and arches, arches and curves generally (not infrequently illuminated to a golden or red color at night) are *common* forms of memorial and monumental architecture, that this tradition and not some "Islamic crescent" is what the architects of the memorial are referencing, and that in my opinion the people upset about this are dingbats ignorant of their own Western cultural traditions.

Here here are a few examples - these are one’s that came to mind offhand just thinking of “War Memorials” where I could quickly find a pic, there are literally thousands of others :

Australia:

http://www.deewhyrsl.com.au/images/photos/War%20Memorial/War%20Memorial%20Night.jpg
http://www.billdevine.com.au/andrea/sydney/images/80364%20War%20Memorial%202.jpg
http://www.rslnsw.com.au/uploads/Rose%20Garden%20Kokada%20Walkway.jpg

Germany:

http://www.berlin-info.de/deutsch/sights/big/s_15_b.jpg
http://www.longmeadow.org/gog/photos/War-Memorial.jpg

Italy:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E392M/SJ/Tomb%20of%20the%20Italian%20Unknown%20Soldier.jpg

UK:

http://www.kelso-online.co.uk/images/Abbey-memorial.jpg
http://www.dva.gov.au/images/commem/mem_day_large.jpg

USA:

http://www.soulofamerica.com/images/photosdc/BlackCivilWarMem_n.jpg
http://www.usafa.org/pages/images2/War-Memorial.jpg
http://www.custermuseum.org/Peacememorial.jpg
http://www.easternindiana.com/images/War%20Memorial%201.gif
http://www.coral-lab.org/~catalano/photos/arlington/arlington-Images/3.jpg
http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/airfields/si16.jpg
http://www.longmeadow.org/gog/photos/War-Memorial.jpg
http://briggl.com/travelogues/040922washingtonDC/images/thumbs/DSCN0899.jpg http://www.wvculture.org/history/12.jpg

USSR:

http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/skipevans/atl/russia/pg20-03.jpg

Wales:

http://www.mabot.com/images/2001/n5/0104-0735%20wales%20circular%20war%20memorial.jpg

And a few from non-Western cultures:

Iraq:

http://home.nc.rr.com/billyandjenn/Baghdad%20Photos/Tomb%20of%20unknown%20soldier02.JPG

Japan:

http://www.thought-and-memory.co.uk/photos/hiroshima_memorial.jpg

Singapore:

http://verify.idp.com/singapore/Aus%20War%20Memorial.jpg