Flight
93 Memorial - Update Heroes Soon Forgotten A Letter To
Congress The Original Article Is
Below
It was the heroes of Flight 93 that
stopped that 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 very building that Congress
works in, the U.S. Capitol. It goes through my mind as to how many
of you were there that day and were saved by the heroic people on
that flight, and how many appreciate what they did in the face
of death. They thought of others that day. It is my hope that some
of you will think of them now.
There were forty victims on
that flight. So it is not a surprise that there are a
variety of personalities within the many family members with
many different opinions to match. 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's
own website shows the count to be half a dozen family
members, along with seven other people. (click here) - Also, the fact is, a person had to
qualify in order to even be in the meetings; and being a family
member was not enough. For example, while Mr. Burnett was
allowed in the meetings, Mrs. Burnett was not. --The Burnetts
are the parents of Tom Burnett Jr., the man who, along with another
man, headed up the forty Flight 93 heroes.
The park service
also has a page designed to convince people of the 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, which 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 too. There were other
family members that were involved in the meetings and voting, 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 on top of everything else, the
voting was done in secret.
One person on the video says that
a person would have to be looking in order to find
Islamic crescents in the design. Well that is odd, considering
that the original name for the design was "Crescent" of
Embrace! That's pretty obvious. And though the design is now
called The "Circle" of Embrace, it still has the entire first 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 and on the situation with the tower right
away. Another parent got very upset at just the thought of her
child's murderers being thought of in this process. One of the
family members that was in support of the design said she liked
it because she saw it as "reaching out." That is when the
other family member, a parent, interpreted the "reaching
out," as reaching out to Muslims, 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.
Well, 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.
Whether or not
the design's resemblance of an Islamic Mosque was conspired or not
does not matter when it comes to fixing this problem. It
does matter in the whole of this, but certainly not in order to
fix things. If a surgeon accidentally leaves something in you during
surgery, you would still require that he fix the situation.
Likewise, whether this was the most incredible accident in park
design history or not, it needs fixed.
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 one 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 know about 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 also implies that it would not give money to an extremist
agenda, but never states if the Islamic group would be
considered such. --click here and 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
services 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 land owner 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 thier 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.
The park service has only those who are for the
design, speaking on memorial videos, totally disregarding the
others. The park service is not conveying the fullness of this
situation, claiming that everyone but the Burnetts are okay with the
design. Even if it were just the Burnetts, shouldn't they matter
too? And how hard would it be then to appease them if they truly
were the only ones? On phone calls, I could hear that
the park service does not care about the parents of Tom Burnett
Jr. --But they are not the only ones. There are others,
and they should matter, as well. Will you remember
them?
Please
see below to see exactly what all of the controversy is about in
clear and to the point details. I have spoken with Mr. and Mrs.
Burnett, and they are the furthest from troublemakers. They simply
know when it is time to take a stand and do that which is right.
Does this sound familiar?
Debra J.M. Smith November 23,
2009
To all others, please send this letter to your
congressman/woman, if you believe he/she would care. I plan to run
off copies and send it out to any congress person that I feel might
care.
Special thanks to: Mr. and Mrs. Burnett - Parents of
Tom Burnett
Jr.
Alec Ralws - Author of Crescent of
Betrayal
Diane Gramley - From American Family Association of
Pennsylvania
Memorial Plan For Flight 93 Crash Site In
Pennsylvania There is audio, above, that goes with
this article, for easier
understanding.
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.
