Bob McCarty Writes

Recently, Newsbusters ran an article, Pennsylvania Newspapers Pretend There is No Direction to Mecca, about a growing controversy surrounding the design of a memorial to Flight 93, the aircraft which crashed into the Western Pennsylvania countryside on Sept. 11, 2001. The article begins this way:

In September 2005, a half dozen different bloggers verified that a person facing into what was originally called the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 would be facing almost exactly at Mecca. Some surrounding trees have been added to the design, but the giant central crescent remains completely intact in the Bowl of Embrace redesign (above).

With Tom Burnett Sr. condemning the crescent design and refusing to allow Tom Jr.’s name to be used, there is now a big public controversy in western Pennsylvania over whether the giant crescent really is oriented on Mecca. In response, the Memorial Project has decided to deny that there is any such thing as the direction to Mecca, and Pittsburgh’s two major newspapers are both backing up this transparent falsehood.

Of course, there’s a lot more to the story, and it’s well worth your time to investigate it for yourself. Click here to read the rest of the Newsbusters article.

Another site to review is Error Theory, the blog home of Alec Rawls, the man largely responsible for exposing this insult to the heroic passengers of Flight 93. He’s expended an incredible amount of time and resources to uncover the details surrounding this issue and has a book, Crescent of Betrayal, due for publication in February 2008.

Appreciative hat tips to Velvet Hammer at Ironic Surrealism II and Debbie at Right Truth.

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UPDATE 11/13/08:  Video: Flight 93 Memorial Still Points to Mecca

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