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

PetitionOnline ^ | 11/06/2005 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

FreeRepublic has the power to change this event if we will but exercise it.

[Jeff Head]

FYI..please forward.

[silverleaf]

[Theresawithanh]

I thought they'd already rejected that design for the memorial. I'll sign anyway, JIC.

[demitall]

Done.

[conservative in nyc]

I thought they already agreed to change Flight 93 the memorial. Let me see if I can find a link.

[Publius6961]

Er... Jeff.
People might take this petition more seriously if the spelling of "petition" is corrected...

[Tanniker Smith]

I wonder how much they're going to have to pay for 24-hr security to prevent angry crowds with chainsaws.

No, I'm not threatening anything. Reality check here: after Columbine, trees were planted, one for every dead student -- including the ones that caused the massacre. Angry parents came and either chopped down or dug up those two trees. (Sorry, don't remember exactly which.) No one tried to stop them. I don't believe that those trees were ever replanted either.

TS

[Jeff Head]

Nope...they vaguely said they might change the name...but not the intent. Nothing definitive has happened yet and it is up to us as citizens to keep the heat on until they actually change it. It is amazing...and an absolute travesty IMHO.

Please forward it...I will notify the Park Service and the US Congress regarding the petition and its signatures.

[Eagles6]

Signed.

[Jasper]

Done

BTTT

/jasper

[Jeff Head]

Exactly...I heard it was only 1/2 degree or so off. If true, there is no accident or coincidence there IMHO in such an alignement.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Done.

Especially since rewriting history for the sake of political correctness is a horrible thing to do.

What's it going to be. Firefighters in a wheel chair wearing arab robes.

[Jeff Head]

Thanks.

[conservative in nyc]

Sort of:

Architect offers to alter Flight 93 memorial to appease critics

By KIMBERLY HEFLING
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The architect of the memorial to a plane downed in western Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, said Wednesday he would work to satisfy critics who complained that it honors terrorists with its crescent-shaped design.

Designer Paul Murdoch said he is "somewhat optimistic" that the spirit of the design could be maintained.

"It's a disappointment there is a misinterpretation and a simplistic distortion of this, but if that is a public concern, then that is something we will look to resolve in a way that keeps the essential qualities," Murdoch, 48, of Los Angeles, said in a telephone interview.

Murdoch's design, "Crescent of Embrace," was selected last week during a meeting of the Flight 93 Advisory Commission. It had been one of five finalists, narrowed down from 1,011.

The recommendation of the 15-member jury consisting of design professionals and family and community members still needs to be approved by the Interior Department.

The memorial would be located at the crash site in Somerset County, near Shanksville. Its shape is a circle broken by the flight pattern of the plane, which supporters have said follows the topography of the area.

Chris Martin, spokesman for the Flight 93 National Memorial, said Wednesday that family members and federal advisory commission members turned to Murdoch for assistance.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., sent a letter Tuesday to National Park Service Director Fran Mainella saying many have questioned the shape "because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam - and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists."

Will Adams, spokesman for Tancredo, said Wednesday that Tancredo would be happy with the changes only if the crescent shape is removed.

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[Jeff Head]

Well, they should take it seriously anyway. But thanks just the same.

That mispelling is just here on FR within the thread...on the site is correct. I will ask the moderators to correct it here on this page...it is correct in the title on the FR thread list.

Moderator, could you fix the spelling of Petition in the link in the body of the thread?

[Jeff Head]

Thank you both very much...please spread the word and forward it to your entire email list...asking them to sign and do the same.

[Jeff Head]

Amen. Thanks and please forward this on, asking those you send it to to sign and do the same. We need a couple of hundred thousand signatures real quick.

[Lexinom]

Signed.

31 signatures.

[Jeff Head]

Since that time...and those "sort of" vague statements...nothing has happened. We have to keep the heat on. Folks who would even consider such a design in the first place are not going to change unless the pressure builds to a crescendo and holds there IMHO.