Story Of The Day
At 7:00 a.m. yesterday morning, the Fire Family Transport Foundation launched from Floyd Bennett Field on Long Island to escort a cross of steel from the destroyed World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company. The foundation provides medical transport to firefighters, family members, and wounded warriors.
NEW YORK - The roar of 1,000 motorcycles accompanied a steel beam from the World Trade Center yesterday as it traveled to Pennsylvania, where it will be part of a memorial in the town where an airliner crashed during the Sept. 11 attacks.
Hundreds of current and retired FDNY firefighters left Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field at about 7 a.m. to escort the girder on the 311-mile ride to Shanksville, Pa., where Flight 93 crashed.
They rolled down I-287 through New Jersey and I-78 in Pennsylvania; at every overpass, folks came out to greet them and show our true colors.
Great story. Lots of pictures at the link.
PeggyU:
This is the most encouraging thing I have read so far regarding the Flight 93 commemoration. If you have not been following the turmoil over the design of the memorial, you should read about it and throw your support behind the families of the crew and passengers of Flight 93. They are fighting the design of the memorial as it now stands. It would save time, money, and grief if they were simply to erect the cross in the field, along with the names of the passengers and crew … and scrap the rest of the memorial design entirely.
August 25, 2008, 1:53 pmAlec Rawls:
Hi Prof:
Saw your comment over at 911FamiliesForAmerica, wishing you could have made the trip. There is something else you can do for Flight 93, even more important, and suited to you status as a reputable academic analyst. You could fact check some of the claims about the planned Flight 93 memorial being a terrorist memorial mosque, and publish your findings.
The Flight 93 families are horribly divided, with Tom Burnett Sr. (father of murdered hero Tom Jr.) pleading for the American people to please help him stop this desecration of his son’s gravesite, while family members who back the crescent/ broken-circle design say that the continued accusations of Islamic and terrorist memorializing design features are killing them.
Are the claims about the design accurate? Did the original giant Crescent of Embrace point to Mecca? Does the original giant crescent remain completely intact in the broken-circle redesign? Does the plan call for the 9/11 date to be inscribed on a separate section of memorial that is centered on the bisector of the giant crescent, in the exact position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag?
These are simple geometric claims that are easy to fact-check. If they are true, that needs to be resolved. If they are false, then the critics need to be exposed as frauds or dupes. If you have time to do somthing, please do this.
August 26, 2008, 2:04 am