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Apr 12, 2006 - The issue is heating up again, as the Flight 93 movie is due to be released shortly, and the all-seeing eye of the blogosphere once again turns to the Memorial Project. No surprise, some of the elements are STILL including the terrorists. More details at the bottom of this page, and much more to follow as the situation develops.

There’s been much heat in the blogosphere regarding the Monuments to our Fallen of 9/11.

The attempt to emplace a ‘Blame America’ exhibit space at the heart of the rebuilt World Trade Center site was narrowly averted, but still must be paid close attention to as such foLLLks never ever stop their deconstruction attempts.

Likewise, the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania has been the source of some outrageously disgusting maneuvering by the insane multi-culti dhimmified Left in this Nation. The design review committee was stacked with some of the same asshats involved in the initial WTC rounds, along with “leading lights” of the art world - put it this way, if Time Magazine touts an avant garde artist, then we’re likely to get another Crucifix soaking in urine.

Sure enough, the announced ‘winner’ of the design process was by a Lib artiste and was entitled ‘Crescent of Embrace’. The design is stuffed with Islam-centric obscenity, the primary element of which is a large Crescent of Red Oak trees. A Red Crescent. On a site supposedly honoring our dead, people dead at the hands of Islamic Terrorists. Even more telling, the “clever” artist deliberately - there is no other word for it than ‘deliberately’ aligned that Crecent on the least-distance direction to Mecca.

There’s already been much written & observed about the critical elements of the design, much information can be found at the following Little Green Footballs topics discussing the matter

11/30/05  07:58 PM: Flight 93 Memorial Still an Islamofascist Shrine

11/30/05  08:15 AM: Crescent of Embrace Grudgingly Redesigned

10/22/05  08:15 AM: Flight 93 "Crescent of Embrace" Remains Unchanged

09/16/05  08:13 AM: Crescent of Embrace

09/14/05  06:48 PM: Flight 93 Memorial Will Be Changed

09/13/05  08:26 PM: CAIR: "Those Aboard a Plane That Crashed"

09/13/05  10:53 AM: Steyn: Flight 93, Re-Hijacked

09/11/05  02:04 PM: Flight 93 Memorialized with Red Crescent

09/09/05  08:25 PM: Flight 93 Memorial Outrage

09/08/05  09:32 PM: Flight 93 Outrage

Michelle Malkin -

FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL: SEEING IS BELIEVING

FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL: CONTROVERSY

Zombietime -

 Flight 93 Memorial Project

All in all, the design is a paean to Islam, with just a cursory mention of our Dead and absolutely NOTHING about Resolve, Strength, Fighting the Good Fight and oh my, nothing of the famous last words of “Let’s Roll!”.

When challenged about the design, the Committee retrenched, the artist pugnaciously stuck out his lower lip and swore to change nothing.

Then they gave a little ground and the artist smudged the boundaries of the Crescent around a little bit, and tweaked the name. As of this writing, that it the state of the design. Still incorporating several referents to Islam, a ground design that pays homage to Islamic arrogance, separatism, worship patterns and objects and precious little of anything American or which Memorializes our honored dead of that flight.

No doubt this memorial, if left unchanged, will take an honored place alongside Auschwitz on the Jihadi World Tour, where Islamofascists can come and chant ‘Allahu Ackbar!’ in celebration.

When the “Revision” was announced, blogosphere outrage was re-lit. Electrons flew. During that time I composed a letter hitting all the salient disgusting dhimmi points of the design and expressing my disgust with them, the overal nature of the design.

A near-final draft of that letter can be found at this LGF link

That letter was sent immediately afterward to every single Federal elected representative I have, from my Congressional Representative, the Flight 93 Committee offices, through the Sec’t of the Interior, the office of the VP and President of the United States. I even included my utterly useless State Senators Madames Feinstein and Boxer [spit] in my mailing, expecting absolutely nothing to come from them regarding the matter. Such is the state of my Senatorial ‘representation’.

To date, and just this day, seven weeks later, I’ve received my only reply. And it’s from the Flight 93 Memorial Project office, from the personage of Joanne Hanley - Executive Director, National Parks of Western Pennsylvania and Superintendent, Flight 93 National Memorial.
To her / their credit, the letter is personal, attempts to address my specifics regarding the jihadi symbolism Paul Murdoch Associates included in the design. Beyond that, it is formulaic in its recounting of how the design got to where it is (material which LGF Regulars are already familiar with / sussed out).
It's most unsatisfying. Even more so, its attempt at mollification contains more than a whiff of 'it is what it is and nothing is going to change it further'.

See the following scans for the letter.

Apr 12, 2006 - As mentioned above, The Flight 93 Memorial webiste has been updated once more. I notice that some of the key disputed features are not rendered for further review. The minaret-reminiscent tower structure is now just a sliver in teh distance of one rendering. The ‘Crescent of Embrace is now blandly ‘The Bowl’ with no significant changes, and the damned separate blocks memorializing the terrorists are STILL part of the design. To wit:.