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It
was the heroes of Flight 93 that stopped a plane from
going into a fourth building on that horrific
9/11/01 morning that is forever etched in the minds of every
American old enough to remember. It was said that the plane would
have flown into the U.S. Capitol, had it not been for
them.
There were forty victims on that
flight. It is not a surprise that there are a
variety of personalities and opinions within the many
family members. With that, it just seems so odd that only half
a dozen family members would be involved in the voting process that
was said to have voted to use a design that has many attributes to
an Islamic Mosque.
To listen to people who work for the
North East National Park Service, one might actually
believe that the voting was all-inclusive. But one would be wrong.
The park service website shows the count to be half
a dozen family members, along with seven other people: click here. A
person had to qualify in order to even be in the meetings. Being a
family member was not enough. While the father of Tom Burnett
Jr., Mr. Burnett, was allowed in the meetings, Mrs.
Burnett was not. --Tom Burnett Jr. was one of the two men
that headed up the forty Flight 93
heroes.
The park service has a page designed to
convince people of support for the memorial design, complete with a
video of family members supporting it: click
here. Problem is that only three victims are
represented in the video that lies about family members
who are not on the video and are against the design. One
person goes as far as to say that sources
speaking against the design are, "unrelated to the memorial
partnership." Mr. and Mrs. Tom Burnett Sr.
are absolutely related, as are others. There were other family
members who did not want the design. The park service speaks of
everyone having agreed that the design that won the vote would
ultimately get built. However, the Burnetts never dreamed that an
Islamic shaped design would be involved. And the voting was
done in secret.
One man on the video said a person
would have to be looking in order to find Islamic crescents in
the design. That is odd, considering that the original name for the
design was Crescent of Embrace. The design is now called The
Circle of Embrace, while it still has the entire crescent
design within it.
The design includes a "Tower
of Voices" that is not only a morbid reminder of the forty
victims' voices calling out to loved ones on their cell phones,
but is a perfect Islamic Minaret that would call Muslims to
prayer. Actually, the entire design fits the requirements of a
giant Islamic Mosque.
Mr. Burnett picked up on the
Crescent Design of the tower right away. One of the family
members that was in support of the design said she liked it
because she saw it as "reaching out." Another parent got
very upset at just the thought of her child's murderers being
thought of in this process, and said that she did not want to reach
out to those who murdered her
child.
A couple years later Mr. and Mrs.
Burnett found out about a book that points out all of
the Islamic references in the design and met the
author Alec Rawls. Along with other family members,
many Americans have signed a petition to stop the design from
being built. click
here
The newest shame-buzz phrase
has already been tossed into this arena - "conspiracy
theorists." Which of course is suppose to make all those
who oppose the design pull back in shame. It might do so with weak
people. But the Burnetts are not weak. One can truly see where
their son got his
strength.
Mrs. Burnett got involved for two main
reasons: 1) to secure the crash site and 2) to bury the rest of the
remains. Though the site has been secured, the rest of the
remains have still not been buried. It is believed that there
are still remains scattered across a seven-mile area. As Mrs.
Burnett calls it, it is an "open burial ground." Mrs. Burnett
has also said that many people would like to keep it as it is now,
simple and respectful to all of the victims. But it
seems that some want to make a freak show out of the crash
site, even going as far as stating in one report that they want
people to "feel the spirits of the forty heroes in the whisper of
the trees." That is pagan and sick. The Lord's children are in
heaven, not floating around some
trees.
It is interesting what great lengths the
park service is going to in order to defend the Islamic shaped
memorial. They could simply put it in the shape of a four-sided
design and get rid of that awful tower. Problem solved. However,
when I spoke with the park's person-of-choice to handle the media, I
was told that the next person may want a rose bush changed and asked
where do they stop. He said that they need to get this built and
cannot have things backing it up. This was the same gentleman who
told me that the Burnetts were the only people against the design.
If he really believes that the Burnetts are the only people unhappy
with it and two simple changes would please them, then it stands to
reason to do it, and there would be no people wanting to move a
rose bush. Instead the park service is going way overboard defending
this design. And of course the Burnetts are not the only family
members. It is also said that not all the
victims' families even know of the
design.
Teresa Heinz, the wife of Senator John
Kerry and widow of the late U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III,
funded the contest that was to find a design for the flight 93
memorial, via The Heinz Endowments. click
here
The Heinz Endowments, which Teresa is
the chair-person of, has also given money to the Tides
Foundation, a foundation that gives money to the Islamic group,
CAIR. And although the Heinz Endowments claims any money it has
donated to the Tides Foundation was for specific things, it does not
say all of those specific things. The Heinz Endowments implies that
it would not give money to an extremist agenda, but never
states if the Islamic group would be viewed as one.
click
here
In speaking with those related to
the North East National Park Service and the Heinz
Endowments, the Burnetts were made to sound like troublemakers,
while I was being told that what I was seeing in the design was
not really what I was seeing. And "conspiracy theorists" was tossed
in, as well. I reminded one person that 9/11 was a "conspiracy," and
that it is not a far cry to think that someone may be pushing for
this to be, oh, I don't know, a "healing with Islam" memorial. It is
not as if we have not seen this angle before. Nonetheless, I came
away from call-after-call, thinking, "Wow, they are going too far to
defend this design." And the ironic thing about this is that it was
a privately paid for contest and chosen design, according to the
park service's spokesperson, one that will be built with money that
includes millions of tax-payer money. And there is even a bigger
twist on this. The notes that were taken by recorders in the contest
meetings were all destroyed after reports were written. I was told
that they could do this due to the meetings being private and the
contest being paid for with private funds, the funds that Teresa
Heinz's organization
provided.
So, why is a privately paid for contest
resulting in a design that is so controversial, being paid for in
any part by American citizens? Why is the national park
service going along with it? Where is the proof that the meetings
even went the way that the reports said they went? With all of the
recorded notes destroyed and a secret voting, how do we really know
the true outcome of those meetings? Where's the
proof?
The park is asking for donations
for the remainder of the cost to build the memorial. I wonder how
many people who donate, know about the controversial design. It
is not as if it would remain a secret, once the huge design is
built, if not stopped.
I also wonder how many people know about
the harm that has been done to the main landowner in this. Is this
what America is about, being thugs and trying to ruin people? click here and
click
here --Note in the first article, that this
land owner has said that he "wants
no money for the
land where the plane actually crashed."
As
for the Burnetts, they have said that they are willing to
simply have their son's name removed from the memorial.
The park service has declined even that request. That should
make anyone of a reasonable mind see who the real troublemakers
are.
Click Here to see in detail
what exactly all of the controversy is
about.
