Category Archives: Flight 93 Memorial

16 Sep

Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst: Burnett Radio Interview about 9/11 and the Flight 93 Memorial

Tom Burnett Sr. and his wife Beverly did some 9/11 interviews the last couple of days, remembering their son Tom Jr., who was murdered by Islamic terrorists aboard Flight 93. Mr. Burnett has been trying for several years to stop … Continue reading

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10 Jul

Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst: Everyone involved with the Flight 93 Memorial knows that the Crescent of Embrace points to Mecca

In 2007, Flight 93 Advisory Commission member Tim Baird told me that everyone at the meetings he attended is fully aware that the giant crescent, originally named the Crescent of Embrace, really does point almost exactly at Mecca. Professor Baird … Continue reading

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22 May

Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst: Two Memorial Project Commission Members Quit Over The Project’s Bad Behavior

Two Pennsylvanian’s quit the Flight 93 Memorial Commission last week, protesting Park Service plans to condemn five crash-site properties that it never negotiated for in good faith. Consider the case of the Lambert family, who have been on their land … Continue reading

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9 May

Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst: Saudi authorities contradict U.S. Park Service: mihrabs do NOT have to point exactly at Mecca

A Muslim consultant told the Park Service in 2006 that the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 cannot be seen as a mihrab (the Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built), because the giant Islamic-shaped crescent does not … Continue reading

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15 Jan

Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst: 1 in 131 billion: The Movie

Set to another Ennio Morricone masterpiece. Synopsis Architect Paul Murdoch split his giant Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 into two separate arcs at the top, in effect creating two separate crescents: Detail view shows the pair of thousand … Continue reading

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11 Sep

Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst: Frontpage Magazine Covers The Memorial Debacle

FrontPage managing editor Jamie Glazov interviews Alec Rawls in this week’s FrontPage Interview. Rawls takes the opportunity to lay out the basic facts for a new set of readers: 1. That the giant crescent (originally called the Crescent of Embrace) … Continue reading

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23 Aug

Cross-shaped steel debris from WTC North Tower to be Memorial

In what is a less controversial rememberance of those that died, and those who risked and gave their lives in the aftermath of 911, a flag draped, cross of the steel debris from the North Tower is traveling via motorcade … Continue reading

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22 Aug

Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst: Big DC Fundraiser Cancelled

Cancel as well the urgent action alert that was going to be the subject of today’s blogburst post. The Memorial Project has just abandoned the “gala” tribute and fundraiser they were planning for almost a year. The event was to … Continue reading

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15 Aug

Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst: Memorial Project Superintendent Lies About Receiving Threats

Joanne Hanley, superintendent of the Flight 93 Memorial Project, cannot answer the damning facts about the crescent design (now called a broken circle), so she has decided to slander the people who are pointing them out. In a speech at … Continue reading

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7 Aug

Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst: Flight 93 Families Divided

Tom Burnett Sr. entered the lion’s den on Saturday to oppose the crescent memorial to Flight 93 (now called a broken circle). An excerpt from the beginning of the Somerset Daily American‘s banner headline story about division amongst the families:

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