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September 09, 2005
Flight 93 marker design chosen (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
Pittsburgh Post GazetteIt will serve as a living tribute. With each wind, each breeze, a set of chimes housed in a 93-foot tower will create a different song in memory of the 40 people who sacrificed their lives trying to save the lives of others.
So far, so good.
Four years after United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a reclaimed strip mine near Shanksville, Somerset County, on Sept. 11, 2001, the design that will serve as the national memorial was unveiled here yesterday in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hall of Flags ... Forty separate groves of red and sugar maples will be planted behind the crescent
Crescent? Wait a moment.
"Crescent of Embrace", it's titled. Maybe I'm missing something and just do not understand the artistic significance. Or perhaps I'm assigning significance when there is none.
Its not that I mind the symbol itself. However, this is a memorial to a flight downed by the 9/11 terrorists. Is it really an appropriate shape?
Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at September 9, 2005 11:41 AM
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