Friday, November 14, 2008

The Flight 93 Memorial

Now that 9/11 is some seven years in the past, attention to what the Flight 93 Memorial really represents has waned. In my view, we need to revisit what's been going on in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Please take the time to watch the following video (with a hat tip to Bob McCarty Writes:



Read more HERE and HERE.

The present design of the memorial in not a fitting design for those brave individuals who refused to let United Flight 93 be used as a deadly missile, as were the other flights which reached their targets on 9/11.

Does 9/11 matter so little now that we are going to sit back and allow this atrocity of a memorial to become a reality, without even raising our voices in outrage? Do we care so little about the passengers and legitimate flight crew, all of whose lives were sacrificed so as to prevent the airliner from reaching its destination, that we just say "Oh, well"?

(Crossposted to THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Within the tower of voices remain 40 wind chimes screaming in the breeze - echoing the horrors of 9/11 to the islamists ever celebritory ears - for eternity.

If built - it will be destroyed.

Pastorius said...

Gee, it would be so sad if some horrible Infidel chose to destroy it. After all that hard work to bring down the towers, I mean to erect the Memorial.

Always On Watch said...

Villagers with pitchforks?

Pastorius said...

Have Muslims ever apologized for 9/11?

I don't recall ever hearing any apology from the Muslim world.

Always On Watch said...

Moslems apologize? Hell, no.

Always On Watch said...

I've visited the site at Shanksville.

It is a MIRACLE that the airliner came down where it did, not injuring anyone on the ground. A few more seconds in the air, and the fireball in Somerset would have been huge; Somerset, just off the PA Turnpike, is filled with gas stations.

A few seconds the other way, the airliner would have come down on farmhouses.

Instead, the crash occurred in what amounts to a small dump site for vending machines. The airliner hit the ground so hard that it burrowed many feet into the ground -- full throttle, I would guess.