Doing the math

As a follow up to the post bellow about the Flight 93 Memorial I recommend reading this from Wretchard at The Belmont Club.

He does some detailed calculations about the orientation of the crescent with startling results, but comes to essentially the same conclusion.

The contours run right through the opening of the crescent. Unless you wanted the park visitors to climb up and down contour lines the opening was exactly where it had to be. So the simplest explanation it seems to me, is that the orientation of the Crescent of Embrace is coincidental.

But what a coincidence! Memorials are symbols above all and it may be inappropriate to commemorate Flight 93 with a Red Crescent facing Mecca.

Simply put none of the Islamic symbolism was likely intentional, but its coincidental occurrence does not minimize its impact.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 07:43 AM | No Comments | Add Comment