Memorial Plan For Flight 93 Crash Site In
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Original Name: Crescent of
Embrace
Newer Name:
The Circle of
Embrace
Name Meaning: The circle of peace was
broken that
day
Original Design:A crescent that
points to Mecca, fulfilling the requirements of an
Islamic Mosque
Newer Design: An extra arc of trees, which
is placed behind the opening of the unchanged crescent
design
Inscription Blocks:Designed with forty-four
translucent blocks - forty victims' names are to
be inscribed
Special Feature:Crescent
topped tower, an Islamic prayer-time sundial,
containing forty huge
chimes
1)Original name: Crescent of Embrace
Architects,
Paul
Murdoch and Byrd
Woltz designed the memorial with the shape of a crescent.
Would they design a memorial for an attack in a predominately
Muslim nation in the shape of a
cross?
2)Newer Name: The Circle of
Embrace
The architects now call it a broken circle. The only
thing different is that the arc of the circle, the part that is
broken off of the circle,
is now placed behind the opening of the crescent. The
unbroken part of the circle, what symbolically remains standing in
the wake of 9/11, is still a giant Islamic shaped
crescent.
3)Name Meaning: The
circle of peace was broken that day
This
would be recognizing a peace circle being broken, hence
depicting the actions of (and honoring) those who broke it: the
terrorists.
We
want those who broke the chain of events to be honored,
the forty passengers and crew on Flight 93, not those who broke
the circle of peace.
4)Original Design:A crescent that
points to Mecca, fulfilling the requirements of an
Islamic Mosque
The
original design is shaped as a crescent, with the crash site placed
roughly in the position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star
flag.
If
you were to stand right between the tips of the crescent and face
into the center of the crescent, you would be facing North
East, which from the crash-site is the direction to Mecca. That is
the Muslim direction for prayer, so if you are a Muslim, this site
should make you quite happy.
The Mecca-orientation of the
giant crescent makes it a mihrab, the Mecca-direction indicator
around which every mosque is built. Muslims who are sympathetic to
Bin Laden would definitely want to take a trip here, not just to
pray at the world’s largest
Mosque, but
also to pray at a terrorist-memorial mosque.
"Mecca"
(Makkah in Arabic), the center of the Islamic world and the
birthplace of both the Prophet Muhammad and the religion he
founded is the direction that Muslims
pray five times a day.
Muslims face
towards Mecca and are united to the Ka’ba (Islam's most sacred shrine in Mecca) by an
un-seen line of direction called the qibla.
You may
have heard about the fifth pillar of Islam, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
The fifth pillar of Islam says every able-bodied
Islam with money enough to go, is to go to Mecca once in his or
her life.
5) Newer
Design: An extra arc of trees, which
is placed behind the opening of the unchanged crescent
design
After
an up-rise
over the original design, architects, Paul
Murdoch and Byrd Woltz presented another. However,the new design still fully includes the first
design.
All the
architects did was place an arc of trees behind the opening of the
crescent on the original design. The arc of trees is not
connected to the original crescent. It does not connect the ends or
in any way close the opening of the already existing arc of trees
that form a crescent.
According
to the Park Service’s own website, the circle is still broken. The
unbroken part of the circle, what remains from the terror attack on
Flight 93, is still a giant Islamic crescent, still pointing
to Mecca.
The
architects now describe this as an arc of trees
embracing a field of honor, instead of using the
word crescent. Geometrically a crescent
is an arc. An architect would be aware of this. Replacing a
word with a synonym
of that word, and placing an extra arc that is not attached to
the original arc/crescent, is not a true redesign.
To
sum it up, the new design that is now called the Circle of
Embrace is not a circle at all. But rather it is an arc, a
crescent with an arc of trees behind the opening. An
architect knows a broken circle is in fact, an arc. In
this case, a crescent.
6)Inscription Blocks:Designed with forty-four
translucent blocks - forty victims' names are to
be inscribed
The
forty-four translucent blocks are all placed along the
flight path that symbolically breaks the circle.
Forty
are inscribed with the names of the heroic passengers and crew.
Three more of the same size translucent blocks are inscribed
with the 9/11 date. They are set in a separate upper section of
Memorial Wall that is centered on the centerline of the giant
crescent, which is the exact position of the star on an Islamic
flag. The 9/11 date goes to the Islamic star. The date goes to the
terrorists.
The forty-fourth
translucent block on the flight path is larger than the others. It
is the giant glass block that sits at the upper crescent tip,
commemorating the spot where the terrorists broke our peaceful
circle and turned it into a giant Mecca-oriented crescent. To be
inscribed: "A Field of Honor
Forever."
7)Special Feature:Crescent
topped tower is an Islamic prayer-time sundial,
containing forty huge chimes
Forty wind
chimes, representing the lives of our heroes, hang within the tower,
while another Islamic-shaped crescent literally soars
overhead.
You
may have seen how many Islamic minarets are adorned with Islamic
crescents on top. Minarets are used to call the time to prayer.
Architect Paul Murdoch’s minaret-like tower calls the time to prayer
by shadow length (which is how Islamic prayer times are
determined).
They actually
call it "The Tower of Voices." It is named this because the chimes
are forever to be the voices of the people who died that day,
calling out to love ones over the cell phones before the plane went
down. This is morbid in itself, but as per Paul Murdoch's
design, the “voices” also harkens the call to Islamic
prayers.
