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Is Bad Design Slowing Flight 93 Memorial Project? (Update)

September 23rd, 2011 · No Comments

I’ve often felt as if I was beating a proverbial “dead horse” when it came to advocating for a redesign of the memorial to the victims of United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa.  Today, however, I realized efforts like mine might have paid off, albeit in a very small way.  After you watch the video [...]

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Flight 93 Memorial Still Resembles Victory Mosque As 10th Anniversary of 9-11 Attacks Draws Near

August 4th, 2011 · 3 Comments

On Oct. 6, 2007, I wrote and published my first post about the controversial memorial to be constructed at the site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into the Western Pennsylvania countryside Sept. 11, 2001. On Feb. 26, 2009, I shared news of Beverly Burnett’s heartfelt letter in which she called for a full, transparent [...]

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9/11 Marks Opportunity to Stop Flight 93 Memorial

September 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment

With both Barbara Bush and Michelle Obama attending the ceremony in Somerset, Pa., to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Tom Burnett Sr. and Alec Rawls of the Error Theory blog are buying full-page color ads in the city’s Daily American Sept. 10 and 11.  The ads will serve as ready-made [...]

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Flight 93 Father: Ground Zero Mosque Second Being Built on Site of September 11 Attacks

July 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment

EDITOR’S NOTE: Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs is leading the fight against the ground zero mosque in New York.  Today, she posted the following letter from the father of Tom Burnett Jr., one of the heroes aboard United Flight 93: To our fellow 9/11 families and to all who are concerned about the Ground Zero [...]

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Elena Kagan Lied to Supreme Court in 9/11 Case

June 29th, 2010 · No Comments

President Barack Obama’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, lied about the wording of a law that goes to the very heart of our ability to use the courts to combat Islamic terrorism. As Obama’s solicitor general, Kagan urged the Court to dismiss the suit that our 9/11 families have been pressing against the Saudi [...]

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Let’s Take a Hard Look at Islamic Symbolism

April 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments

It’s time to take another critical look at the increasing use of Islamic symbolism in national imagery, especially during the past 16 months. About seven weeks ago, I contended that the Flight 93 Memorial design should spark more outrage than the new U.S. Missile Defense Agency logo.  Today, Alex Rawls at Error Theory pointed out [...]

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Flight 93 Memorial Design Should Spark More Outrage Than New Missile Defense Agency Logo

February 24th, 2010 · 7 Comments

Earlier today, Drudge Report correctly pointed out similarities that exist between the new logo of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (below left) and the logo used by the presidential campaign of Barack Obama (below right). It’s another design similarity, however, that deserves more attention and should spark more outrage among Americans. The design of the [...]

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