What the Flight 93 memorial needs
And a lot more of this:
UPDATE from Mark Steyn:
As UPI’s Jim Bennett wrote, “The Era of Osama lasted about an hour and a half or so, from the time the first plane hit the tower to the moment the General Militia of Flight 93 reported for duty.”
Exactly right. Six decades earlier, the American people had to wait four months between Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid. But September 11th was Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid wrapped up in 90 minutes. Flight 93 was supposed to be the fourth of Osama’s flying bombs, its destination either the White House or the Capitol. Had it reached its target, the following morning’s headlines would have included “The Vice-President is still among the missing, presumed dead”. Had Flight 93 sheared the top off the White House, that would have been the day’s “money shot”, as it was in the alien-invasion flick Independence Day – the shattered façade, smoke billowing, the seat of American power reduced to rubble.
But the dopey hijackers assigned to Flight 93 were halfway across the continent before they made their move and started meandering back east. And, by the time the passengers began calling home on their cellphones, their families knew what had happened in New York. Todd Beamer couldn’t get through to his wife, so the last conversation of his life was with the GTE telephone operator, who stayed on the line with him and overheard his final words: “Are you ready, guys? Let’s roll!” And then a brave group of passengers jumped their hijackers and, at the cost of their own lives, prevented that day’s grim toll rising even higher.
Precisely our thinking — let’s honor the General Militia of Flight 93.
September 12th, 2005 at 7:35 pm
I just posted this comment at ACE of SPADES:
Flight 93 Memorial: Crescent Points Towards Mecca (CONFIRMED, with Update)
NOTE:
Lefty Architect use of color red for blood and fire it quite sensitive.
And we over 35 also seem to recall the relationship of the color RED and a crescent like shape to that enemy now part of the “memorylessness” (Wretchard’s word) of the Left Stream Media:
THE USSR – OFF THE MAP – OUT OF HISTORY.
but RED China is still on map.
You wrote:
“The Crescent Points to China, Not Mecca?: Nope, not according to that picture. The FAT PART of the crescent is not quite centered on the crescent; indeed, if you take the midpoint of the *fat part* of the crescent, that doesn’t point to Mecca. Conceded.But the midpoint of the whole crescent, starting at one slender tip, ending at the other, does seem to point straight to Mecca.Coincidence? Or design? “So both are correct. A great sophomoric
trick by the elite left artsy fartsy community. They must be so proud.
Posted by: larwyn on September 12, 2005 11:23 PM
September 12th, 2005 at 7:47 pm
I just posted this comment to ACE of SPADES’
Flight 93 Memorial: Crescent Points Towards Mecca (CONFIRMED, with Update)
NOTE: The Left is disputing the “points to Mecca” with it “points to China”,
OK:
My comment:
Lefty Architect use of color red for blood and fire is quite sensitive.
And we over 35 also seem to recall the relationship of the color RED and a crescent like shape to that enemy, now part of the “memorylessness” (Wretchard’s word) of the Left Stream Media:
…………….THE USSR – OFF THE MAP – OUT OF HISTORY.
………………………but RED China is still on map.
ACE wrote:
“The Crescent Points to China, Not Mecca?: Nope, not according to that picture. The FAT PART of the crescent is not quite centered on the crescent; indeed, if you take the midpoint of the *fat part* of the crescent, that doesn’t point to Mecca.
Conceded.But the midpoint of the whole crescent, starting at one slender tip, ending at the other, does seem to point straight to Mecca.Coincidence? Or design? ”
Me again:
So both are correct. A great sophomoric trick by the elite left artsy fartsy community.
They must be so proud.
Posted by: larwyn on September 12, 2005 11:23 PM (at Ace of Spades)
PS I remarked on this combined symbolism on first view of the design.
That is was an insult any way you looked at it. And that was before the new
revelations.
………..THEY THINK WE ARE IDIOTS BECAUSE THEY ARE IDIOTS!
September 13th, 2005 at 10:29 am
ABSOLUTELY!