Flight
93 Memorial
A Matter of Honor - A Matter of Disgrace Debra J.M. Smith - www.InformingChristians.com Click Here: to listen to this radio webcast. The full audio plays best in Google Chrome & Microsoft Edge. 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
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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? 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. |
5) Newer
Design: An extra arc of trees, which is placed
behind the opening of the unchanged crescent
design
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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.
For more
information, please go to: www.CrescentOfBetrayal.com.
To sign a petition,
please go to: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/HonorFlight93/.
Special
thanks to Alec Rawls, the author of Crescent of Betrayal,
for his much appreciated edits
in this article.
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