The Flight 93 Memorial Controversy & Other Tidbits

In our highly politicized society, almost everything is controversial these days, even the memorial to the heroes of United Flight 93. One wonders if people who create these controversies are just ignorant and insensitive, or whether they are rooting for our enemies.

The memorial to Flight 93 was chosen and announced just last September, to the horror and dismay of thousands of bloggers and others, who saw that it had decidedly Islamic overtones. Was this a memorial to the Flight 93 heroes or to the terrorists who murdered them? See Michelle Maklin's article on the memorial controversy here.

The memorial would be a red crescent, created by red maple trees and the memorial would be called "the Crescent of Embrace." Red crescents are, of course, Islamic symbols that are featured on the flags of many Islamic nations, as Real Clear Politics illustrates here.

A large outpouring of outrage resulted in a redesign of the "Crescent of Embrace," and last November the design was altered from a crescent to a bowl shape. Stanford blogger Alec Rawls at Error Theory is unimpressed and says the shrine is still "Islamofacistic." He may overstate the case, but he makes some interesting arguments. Read his article here.

This controversy is similar to the Ground Zero memorial plaque which was to provide apologetics to the terrorists who razed the Twin Towers, leading to a clear conclusion: Never, never let liberals design national monuments.
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Other interesting facts: Whenever a national tragedy happens, conservatives want to create memorials and honor the dead. Liberals, on the other hand, want to create conspiracy theories and wonder what high cabal of capitalist oil-craving warmongers staged the event down to the smallest details. It is not surprising, then, that a number of internet sites claim that Flight 93 was shot down by the US Airforce, and that's all they're interested in. I won't link to any of these sites, but you can easily find them on the internet. Conspiracy theories are a great way to divert the mind from unpleasant facts that liberals want to avoid at all costs.
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Why weren't the bodies of Flight 93 buried? The reason is simple: the plane dived into the ground nose-first at 500 miles per hour, instantly cremating all those aboard. I read somewhere that the only human remains that were found consisted of an eight-inch section of a spine. The rest of the remains are ashes, mixed into the earth by the force of the impact. For that reason, the Flight 93 monument is more than a memorial, it is also a grave. It is the final resting place of the passengers and crew...not to mention the four Muslim scumbags who killed them.