For some details on the changes go to a blogger who actually works:

http://www.michellemalkin.com/

So it's more like a crumpet then. What the f- do the British have to do with Flight 93?

A serious conservative should be commissioned to create the memorial.

"bowl-shaped area," meaning, like, a crater?

Amazing that a crater is still an improvement.

Hey Minimum!! Just because Ace hasn't been published yet and he hasn't posted the often promised second half judging of the poetry contest does not mean he is unemployed! For your information he's employed in the adult film industry and is so efficient they have him working multiple jobs - fluffer, mop boy, and occasional body double when an actor doesn't feel like doing anal.

I got yer back Ace. Um, so to speak.

I wonder how long it will take for some of those trees to "die" out, thus recreating the arc of "embrase".

It still sounds like a memorial the New York Times editorial board would approve of--no hint that the passengers did anything heroic, or that anger could be any part of a response to their deaths. Very non-judgmental.

A better revision would have been to extend the crescent into a circle, balance it on edge, put intersecting crosshairs in the circle, and aim it at Mecca.

I just looked at the "new" design in the November Flight 93 memorial newsletter ( in pdf format)

I can not immediately see any discernable difference from the original memorial, other than the "cresent of embrace" is now CALLED the "bowl".

It's still a stinking red crescent.

The circle enhances the earlier design by putting more emphasis on the crash site, officials said in the newsletter. A break in the trees will symbolize the path the plane took as it crashed.

Oh, so they made it a circle with a break in it.

i.e., a crescent.

I'm okay with it, just as long as they replace those stupid windchimes with something tasteful, like a minaret that plays the call to prayer five times a day. You know, something classy.

I think the prayer rugs in the middle are a nice touch.

images (cropped from Flight 93 m3morial site):

The new "Bowl ".

It's essentially the same design , but the the red rim has been extended a short distanceon one side, making the break between the two arms of the crescent shorter in distance.

Or how about a giant screw pointed at Mecca. Or would that be considered offensive?

Cuz I know how much compos worries about being offensive.....

;-)

LOL RWS. Touché my dear. Touché

compos...heh.

Why don't we just make it a smiley face and get the whole disrepect thing over with for good?

The red crescent is only blended in with a few more trees. Both of the crescent tips are still defined exactly as before. The crescent bisector still points to Mecca. There is still an upper section of memorial wall, bisected by the red crescent bisector and containing additional translucent blocks. The Tower of Voices is still an Islamic prayer-time sundial. The whole Flight 93 memorial is still a jihadist shrine! Complete analysis at my link.

DID YALL READ THIS???? At LGF:

"There are still 44 translucent blocks on the flight path to the crash site, matching the total number of dead, instead of just the forty translucent blocks that are dedicated to the forty murdered Americans."

So that means the memorial has blocks for THE FREAKIN HI JACKERS!!!!!

I'm not an architect, nor do I play one on TV, but I just don't see what's so friggin' hard about designing an unobjectionable 9/11 memorial. Really, I think most of us could do it. Something pretty, something tasteful, something neutral in most regards (esp. religion). Something nice and unobjectionable everybody could agree with. What is the problem with them?! Why can't they just do this one simple thing right? Do these people wear fucking clown suits to funerals?!! I just Do. Not. Understand.

I'm cool with anything they come up.

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Except dinosaurs. No dinosaurs at the memorial. Too much controversy.

Alec's post belongs 'over the fold' or as a separate post altogether since it makes it clear that the redesign is as bad as the old one.

Just my 2 cents.

Will they call it the circile of life? and well a circile wont upset the wussies at the ACLU