An Opposing Viewpoint on the Flight 93 Memorial
Our good friend bebere says sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and points me to the excellent commentary at sisu regarding the Crescent of Embrace (just keep scrolling, lots of good stuff). Suffice to say not everyone shares my opinion (shocker, right?). That’s cool with me…I think it’s inappropriate, as I said, but I will say this: regardless of what design is chosen, the ground at Shanksville was consecrated with the blood of true American patriots, and the memory of what they did should far outweigh any material memorial. Put another way: the memorial already exists in the heart of us all.
Hi, Mark. Thanks for the nice mention. It looks like quite a few folks out there are losing their heads.
Anytime…I admit to having opposed the memorial, and I still do, but this is not my area of expertise, to say the least, and you obviously have a far better grasp on this than I could pretend to. Have a good one!
If a crescent shaped memorial named the “Crescent of Embrace,” that faces Mecca is not a religious symbol but only a typical architectural motif, why not simply change it to a gigantic cross? Isn’t that also a typical architectural motif?
Also have you noticed that the memorial’s defenders are using arches and semi-circles as examples of crescent shaped memorials. Who changed the definition of a crescent?
But Fred, haven’t you noticed, all of a sudden everyone’s an architecture expert (just like we all become disaster recovery experts after Katrina)…