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Minnesota man upset about 9/11 memorial (Tom Burnett Sr)
KSTP.com ^ | 9/10/07 | Yelena Kibasova

Posted on 09/10/2007 4:05:18 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

A Minnesota man is upset over a memorial being built for those who died on United Flight 93.

Tom Burnett Sr. said the proposed memorial is full of Islamic symbols and does not want his son’s name to be a part of it. His son, Tom Burnett Jr., died aboard flight 93 when it crashed in Pennsylvania.

Tom Burnett Sr. said the memorial looks like a giant mosque with Islamic symbols such as a crescent shape around the point of impact that looks similar to the crescents featured on flags of heavily Islamic countries.

The superintendent of the memorial said such claims are based on faulty assumptions. Paul Murdoch, the architect of the memorial, explained in a letter that "the design will continue to develop."

Tom Burnett Sr. said the architect has changed the design several times to camouflage the symbols.

"I see what I saw in August 2005," he said. "It's still there and it's tainted beyond the point where we can do anything but throw it out and start over."

If changes aren't made, Tom Burnett says he will demand that his son's name be taken off of the memorial.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911memorial; flight93; flight93memorial; memorial; sixthanniversary
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Link to video report with Tom Burnett Sr at link.
1 posted on 09/10/2007 4:05:20 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
If it's a Leftists/Muslim memorial, then maybe we can trash it
the same way they trashed ours!
2 posted on 09/10/2007 4:07:48 PM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

First the artist says the claims are based on faulty assumptions but that the design is developing.

Does anyone local have a picture of this “developing” memorial?


3 posted on 09/10/2007 4:09:03 PM PDT by bajabaja
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To: MplsSteve

Ping....


4 posted on 09/10/2007 4:10:46 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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To: bajabaja

see:
http://michellemalkin.com/2005/09/10/flight-93-memorial-seeing-is-believing/


5 posted on 09/10/2007 4:13:57 PM PDT by xcamel (FDT/2008 -- talk about it >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
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To: bajabaja


Not sure where the "tower" is located in this rendering.
6 posted on 09/10/2007 4:14:00 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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To: bajabaja

Anything with any resemblance to a mooselimb symbol should be destroyed. The faux religion of hate cult should be buried forever.


7 posted on 09/10/2007 4:14:34 PM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: bajabaja
Link to a blog that shows the proposed design. Same picture as the video link above.
8 posted on 09/10/2007 4:15:06 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: All

WTF was the “designer” of this memorial thinking?

And WhoTF hired this eejit??


9 posted on 09/10/2007 4:16:42 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I thought this was cleared up ~2 years ago, and was put to rest.....The memorial has been brought back up again?


10 posted on 09/10/2007 4:19:49 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: SGCOS

Yep, this is today’s news.....


11 posted on 09/10/2007 4:21:19 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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To: stainlessbanner; shankbear; xcamel

Thanks for the information and links. It is the NAME of the memorial, “Crescent of Embrace” that is key here. What person with an ounce of historical or religious knowledge would use that symbol in the name of such a memorial?

At first I thought the father was stretching it, but now, with the name and the picture together, yeah, this is like putting a swastika in Auschwitz. Maybe I will get banned for that one, but heck, the logic fits.


12 posted on 09/10/2007 4:23:20 PM PDT by bajabaja
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

disguisting....and to think that they figure we’re all too blind to see.


13 posted on 09/10/2007 4:24:57 PM PDT by mockingbyrd (peace begins in the womb)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I thought this was taken care of a few years back, but perhaps its back on the drawing board. In that case, I vote that freepers and others buy a lot across the street, and make a real memorial. Everyone can go there, and totally ignore the offical one.


14 posted on 09/10/2007 4:31:00 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
He has every reason to be upset. I am too.
15 posted on 09/10/2007 4:31:35 PM PDT by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

A sculpture of Eleanor Roosevelt had to be redesigned because the woman wore “politically incorrect” fox furs. Now the sculpture wears a boring coat. So we rewrite history for modern “correctness”.

This memorial appears to be a symbol. Not a real memorial. So find a new designer!!! A red crescent shape doesn’t cut it!
The families need to be on board for any design selected!


16 posted on 09/10/2007 4:32:09 PM PDT by kactus
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To: xcamel

Murdoch is an idiot...


17 posted on 09/10/2007 4:40:19 PM PDT by in the Arena
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To: All
Did anyone notice the points of the crescent point toward Mecca?
18 posted on 09/10/2007 4:41:45 PM PDT by xcamel (FDT/2008 -- talk about it >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
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To: xcamel
Hopefully, they're not the only things pointed that way...
19 posted on 09/10/2007 4:43:36 PM PDT by MarineDad (Whenever mosques and JDAM's meet, civilization benefits.)
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To: xcamel

That has always been a bone of contention.....


20 posted on 09/10/2007 4:47:02 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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