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National Petition: Oppose the "Crescent of Embrace" Proposal for the Flight 93 Memorial
PetitionOnline ^ | 11/06/2005 | Jeff Head

Posted on 11/06/2005 5:36:17 PM PST by Jeff Head

Edited on 11/08/2005 4:02:18 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

Pleasee sign this petition opposing the "Crescent of Embrace" design being developed for the Flight 93 memorial. Despite vague comments by the designer and the Park Service, the design is going forward as yet unchanged.

PETITION: Oppose the "Crescent of Embrace " Proposal for the Flight 93 Memorial

We must, as US citizens oppose this travesty and make our voices heard. If enough of us do so, we will be successful as we were in opposing the Flag Raising Monument in January of 2002 that had been planned for the WTC Flag Raising.

Start your email chains, link to it on your sites, talk it up in the forums you frequent, call your relatives and friends, inform your neighbors.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Free Republic; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; americanheroes; antiterror; dhimmis; flight93; flight93memorial; freep; islamicterror; jeremyglick; lindagronlund; redcrescent; sandrabrashaw; todbeamer; tomburnett; travesty; treachery; waronterrior
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To: airborne

An uproar was made and the desinger made vague comments about changing the name of the design but not its intent. Since that time, nothing has happened and it looks like they are proceeding. I thought it was time for more heat...and I believe that is exactly what it is going to take to avoid what I consider to be, no matter how well intentioned, this monstrocity.


321 posted on 11/13/2005 11:29:16 AM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Jeff Head
Thanks! I sent the petition around to all of my friends here in PA and across the country.
322 posted on 11/13/2005 11:31:05 AM PST by airborne (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't!)
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To: airborne

GREAT! Thanks so much for that. We need many, many more people to do exactly that so that the growth is maintained. I am convinced if people were aware of this, most would sign and raise their voices against it.


323 posted on 11/13/2005 12:22:27 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Jeff Head
Like that little train......I just keep on chugging along.....emailing the link and pinging Freepers.

I'll send it to the Quinn Show in Shanksville and ask him to give the Petition some publicity.

And I'll include what you said:

This must not occur...the very idea of each fall, around September 11th, during the fall of the year, for a red crescent to appear in the Pennsylvania countryside surrounding the Flight 93 crash site is an abomination to me and a very powerful (and for free people of the world, a very negative) symbolic representation that will encourage and embolden our enemies and shame us all.
324 posted on 11/13/2005 7:07:16 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (Bin Laden shows others the road to Paradise, but never offers to go along for the ride:GWB)
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To: JulieRNR21
Numbers continue to grow slowly...and I believe most of that is word of mouth through email.

Hopefully, one of the talk show hosts or other conservative programs will pick this up and give it a good shot in the arm so that the rate of growth across the country will expand rapidly.

We can keep trying, working, and praying for that eventuality. I was taught at an early age to "work like everything depends on you...pray like everything depends on Him, because it does in both cases."

325 posted on 11/14/2005 8:41:19 AM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: JulieRNR21

Check out signature number 612.


326 posted on 11/14/2005 9:04:14 AM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Jeff Head

Well..... he must have read my email......let's pray he tells his listeners!


327 posted on 11/14/2005 12:24:35 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (Bin Laden shows others the road to Paradise, but never offers to go along for the ride:GWB)
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To: time4good

Looks like Mecca Saudi Arabia to me


328 posted on 11/14/2005 12:26:33 PM PST by Blogger
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To: madison10

There's no reason for this as the design was due to the topography of the area, NOT some idea about promoting Muslim beliefs.





Then why is it called 'CRESCENT of Embrace"?

The 'CRESCENT' is a universally recognized symbol of ISLAM!


329 posted on 11/14/2005 12:50:42 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (Bin Laden shows others the road to Paradise, but never offers to go along for the ride:GWB)
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To: JulieRNR21
Then why is it called 'CRESCENT of Embrace"? The 'CRESCENT' is a universally recognized symbol of ISLAM

I DO happen to know that the symbol of Islam looks like...

The one's calling the design the "Crescent of Embrace" are those promoting the petition against the memorial. The U.S. government is NOT calling the site the "Crescent of Embrace."

Those against the memorial are editorializing the idea just by calling it "crescent" and emotionally charging the issue.

330 posted on 11/14/2005 12:58:06 PM PST by madison10
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To: JulieRNR21

I hope so too.


331 posted on 11/14/2005 1:07:24 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: PurpleMountains

FYI.


332 posted on 11/14/2005 1:08:14 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: madison10; Jeff Head

The one's calling the design the "Crescent of Embrace" are those promoting the petition against the memorial. The U.S. government is NOT calling the site the "Crescent of Embrace."

Those against the memorial are editorializing the idea just by calling it "crescent" and emotionally charging the issue.




Here's a link to the (official) Flight 93 Memorial Project Website. It shows the chosen design and at the top of the page it is clearly called 'The CRESCENT of EMBRACE' which is the NAME given to the design by the architect (NOT by those opposed to the use of a crescent shape).

Go here:

http://www.flight93memorialproject.org/crescent_of_embrace.asp

And here's an excerpt of the design description on that page where you can read the 'CRESCENT OF EMBRACE' again:

BOWL
Through the gesture of embrace, a curving landform formally de.nes the edge of the Bowl. The CRESCENT OF EMBRACE enhances the form and monumental scale of the Bowl to commemorate the heroic actions of the passengers and crew of Flight 93. An allee of Red Maple trees gently descends around the Bowl, crossing the wetlands, to the focal point of the Bowl, the Sacred Ground. Behind the walkway occur forty groves of Sugar and Red Maples and a ring road that leads to parking near the Sacred Ground.


333 posted on 11/14/2005 1:14:20 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (Bin Laden shows others the road to Paradise, but never offers to go along for the ride:GWB)
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To: madison10
Actually, the designer of the proposed memorial called it the "Crescent of Embrace". That's his name.
The winning designers, Paul and Milena Murdoch of Los Angeles, called being selected "an incredible honor."

"There's a huge emotional investment," said Paul Murdoch, 48, his voice choking.

After months of excitement surrounding the design competition, which drew more than 1,000 entries, the project will now move into intense fund-raising and logistical work. No cost estimate or timetable has been set for construction of the memorial, but it will take years.

For the Murdochs, their design evolved all at once, they said, and nothing in it is more important than anything else.

"The idea of the Crescent of Embrace", Murdoch said, "is to be a gesture of healing and bonding. The crescent marks the edge of the land, which will remain largely untouched."

"It's simple and yet it's complex," said Dorothy Garcia, whose husband, Andy, died in the crash. "The void that's there speaks so loudly to the heroism of these 40 souls."

One of the important attributes of the winning design, Murdoch said, is that it allows the memorial to continually grow and change. The maple trees that create the crescent will be planted at just 15 or 20 feet tall. They won't reach maturity for 40 or 50 years.

"It will be open and evolving as long as it's there," he said. "Our memorial is not about offering explanation for what happened, but to allow people to come to terms with it."
- From the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Since that time, he has made vague references to changing the name, but not the intent, of the design.

Sorry, for me, that's not good enough. Any red crescent is unacceptable. Close it off into a full circle...make another symbol.

The fact is, the designer himself recognized it as a crescent and called it that. It will go red in the fall of the year, every year, surrounding that hallowed ground. Our enemies will be emboldened by that symbology...and in my estimation, we will be shamed.

Others may feel differently...so be it, I will continue to do all I can to fight it.

But let's make no mistake, when announced, the symbol was called and meant to be a "crescent". If completed, that's what it will look like and be...a cresent of maple trees that turns a rich red each fall.

334 posted on 11/14/2005 1:37:42 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Jeff Head

If the dude gave it the name "Crescent of Embrace" he is a moron and it was more than accidental that the place had a Muslim look to it. He knew exactly what he was aiming for. The stories about it just being about the topography were nonsense.

He should have just finished the "crescent" and made it a circle.


335 posted on 11/14/2005 1:43:53 PM PST by madison10
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To: madison10
Exactly...that is what we have been saying and why we were are pushing this petition. Please sign with us.

He most certainly could have anf sould have closed it into a circle...but instead he called it a crescent and insured that it would turn red around 911 each year.

To me...it is a travesty and an abomination that sullies the memory, the honor, and the sacrifice of those who stopped their terrorist hijackers.

336 posted on 11/14/2005 1:47:52 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Jeff Head

Done.


337 posted on 11/14/2005 2:31:00 PM PST by madison10
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To: Jeff Head

bump


338 posted on 11/14/2005 2:35:31 PM PST by kidd
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To: madison10
Thanks so much!

If you are so inclined, please let others know and ask them to consider singing and passing the word as well.

339 posted on 11/14/2005 2:41:50 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: kidd

BUMP back!


340 posted on 11/14/2005 2:42:01 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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