The crescent in the proposed Flight 93 memorial points toward Mecca. But we're assured by the designers that it's not about any particular religion.

Perhaps the intention is to build a memorial to the terrorists and not, as some have imagined, to the people who fought against them.

Mark - perhaps?

Well, it's probably a given that someone is going to sooner or later, perform one of the Islamic daily prayers at the site (they are five times a day). Perhaps the arrangement was meant to impart to the worshipper a special meaning to this activity, perhaps a subtle reminder of the part that the faith had played as justification for the attack.

While placing hidden, controversial symbolism in a memorial like this seems very distasteful, I don't see that the intentions were malicious.

The monument should point to DC.

And since it's a battlefield monument (or it should be), it should commemorate the battle and nothing else, except for the other attacks that day.

One more thing: it shouldn't be an ugly piece of crap.

It really is time we got serious about the 5th column. This is no joke.

Even if one grants that the reference to Islamic symbolism and the geographical orientation of the crescent toward Mecca are merely coincidental (in other words that the designer is a completely oblivious fool) this is still wrong.

Its one thing that they say its a coincidence that it happens to look like a crescent but they are going to make it red. I'm not sure what the symbolism of it being red would signify other then it would make it a red crescent shape.

I think I am going to submit my own proposal and make it like the statuesque representation of the flag raising at Iwo Jima. Instead in my proposal it will have the heroic statues of the passengers from Flight 93 trappling over a islamic fanatical hijacker with a beverage cart. Forever, captured in all its glory till the end of time.

This crescent is going to be made of trees, right?

So, if I take up smoking before I go to see the memorial...