Flight 93 Family Member Against Memorial

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Alec Rawls at the Error Theory has an exclusive with the father of Tom Burnett.  You may recall that Tom was one of forty people on Flight 93 that were the first to fight back against our enemy. 

Tom’s father is now requesting that his son’s name NOT be inscribed on the 44 glass blocks places along the flight path inside this disgrace of a memorial. 

Tom Burnett Sr. called me yesterday and told me that he approved of my efforts to expose the many Islamic and terrorist memorializing features in what was originally called the Crescent of Embrace design. “I am so happy you are doing this,” he told me.

He described his own efforts to stop the crescent design, including letters to the press that were never published. With the crescent design still going forward, he has decided that it is necessary to up the ante, and has authorized me to publicize his decision to protest the crescent design by insisting that Tom Jr.’s name not be inscribed on one of the 44 glass blocks emplaced along the flight path, or used anywhere else in the memorial.

“I think we HAVE to,” says Mr. Burnett. “It’s not that I pull a lot of weight around. I know that. I’m one of forty.”

Tom’s father also read two letters he sent to local papers which they chose to ignore:

Both of Tom Burnett’s September 2005 letters condemn the chosen design in the strongest possible terms. “It is unmistakably an Islamic symbol,” charged Mr. Burnett: “The red Crescent of Embrace… bastardizes what my son and others did on Flight 93.”

Incredibly, the newspapers declined to publish these explosive letters from the father of one of the heroes of Flight 93, a man who is also one of only fifteen Stage Two jurors, making him one of the few people who witnessed the design competition from the inside. “This all went on deaf ears, apparently,” Mr. Burnett told me on the phone. Neither was this the first time that his objections were stifled.

About the jury process itself, Mr. Burnett says: “I thought it was railroaded.” When he pointed out the Islamic symbolism of the crescent, the design professionals on the jury were scornful: “In effect, they said: ‘Don’t be stupid. That’s an aesthetic symbol. That’s all, and it’s used all over the place.’ They were telling us how to interpret it!”

Alec has both letters in full on his post, they are well worth the read. 

When an Islamic symbol is used to commemorate the point when we started fighting back against Islamic terror, and everyone shrugs their shoulders, you know something is going on.  This is crazy!  Not only did the designers build this to be the largest mosque in the world, they include the four hijackers in the design! 

How is it that this is not bigger news?

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Everyday I read of some event or fact that promotes and supports Islam in this country. Why is this being tolerated? If these people can’t assimilate into our culture then go home. This is outrageous. I wouldn’t want my son’s name on that monument either.

Curt, You asked the question:

“How is it that this is not bigger news?”

I’ll tell you exactly why this isn’t bigger news. For the same reason I previously dismissed reports of the memorial being Islamic. It’s just not believable. I’m not saying I don’t believe the claims NOW. I’m only saying they just seemed too conspiratorial at first. But after getting more details I was flabbergasted like I suspect almost every American would be. Does that make since?

There’s a rumor I heard on talk radio that said the architect who designed the memorial, Paul Murdock Architects, submitted the winning design as a joke fully expecting not to win. There was also talk about him being a huge lib who inherited daddy’s business (which is perfectly fine by me).

I have to admit, I thought it was conspiratorial as well, and then I saw it, saw the exact alignment-I mean EXACT, and…ya know, it just seems to me that there’s an infinite number of other options for a design.

Why is it that the Vietnam Memorial can be in the shape of a plane’s wing, but not the Flt 93 Memorial which pays homage to a battle…

….ON A PLANE?!

Lemme rant away a bit further if I may. The plane crashed a few miles from a job site I used to have until 95. I know the area well, and we actually visited it on Oct 5, 01; before there were even makeshift memorials. There was still a USMC Cobra gunship circling providing some sort of patrol over the site. I think I’ve even got some pics of the hole with the guys in tyvek suits walking around, and excavation rigs for scale. I remember looking at the scene and trying figure out the strange burn pattern in the woods. Ya know what it was? The plane hit with such force that the fuel was actually splashed up and over an area into the trees leaving a bullseye burn pattern with the hole in the middle. I’ve been there several times since. It’s only about 2hrs away, and not far from my sister. I’ve seen the place evolve from crater to makeshift memorial, to now this nutjob idea.

Ya know what stirred me the most? Ya know what “memorial” is burned in my mind?

The second time I went there-I think it was 03-there was a fence with buttons, patches, notes, flowers, ribbons, etc all being left to honor those who died. Out of the hundreds of fire department patches, and police patches, and pictures, etc….the thing that got me the most was a tiny little Hot Wheels car that some little kid (or a longing friend, parent, whoever) left at the bottom of the fence. It was sitting on a red white and blue ribbon. Maybe a kid left it for a daddy, or a daddy for a kid. It was clearly placed deliberately. Someone saw past the Islam, past the terror, the butchery on board, past the stink that the hole still had a month later. Someone saw past all that, and remembered the joy of playing with a car as a kid; a joy that was lost.

That was it. That’s what got me the most of all the times I’ve been there.

Everyone signs the book, or leaves a token of some sorts.

Someone had the heart to leave a toy on the battlefield.

It wasn’t just grown ups that those Islamic Holy Warriors killed cut up with knives then plowed into the ground at 500+ miles an hour from thousands of feet in the air.

Yeah, methinks there ought to be a different memorial, and if they can’t find something more appropriate, then I’d rather continue having the windswept, silent field and the chain link fence packed with ribbons, patches, pictures, postcards, and a little Hot Wheel.

I agree with all the comments, at first this story seemed a little too far fetched. But jesus, look at the proposed memorial and tell me that is not a crescent? Is it so hard to come up with a memorial that will please people and not look like a Islamic crescent?

This design needs to be scrapped but we are fast approaching the point of no return.

Q. Yes, and where are the moral imbeciles who have flocked to Cindy Sheehan and made her the Queen of all grieving parents? Why have they no such feelings for Mr. Burnett?

A. Because they only care about Sheehan’s grief because she expresses it in a way that mounts an emotional and unanswerable (if illogical and erroneous) argument against the war in Iraq. They revel as she desecrates her son’s dedication and sacrifice. This exposes Sheehan’s minions as the brutal ideologues and sanctimonious frauds that they are.

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