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Original Crescent of Embrace PDFs
To make it easier to verify my claims about what is in the
Crescent of Embrace design, I am posting the five original Crescent design PDFs
here. You can also get them from the National Park Service Archives by calling
the curator at 814 443-4557 for a password. Images of the Bowl of Embrace
redesign are available on the Memorial Project's
Media page. (Scroll down to March 8, 2006 and November 29, 2005.)
Crescent Of Embrace site
plan PDF (plan view)
40 Memorial Groves PDF (the
giant crescent, from ground level)
Sacred Ground PDF (the
crash site and related memorial structures)
Entry Portal PDF (the upper
crescent tip)
Tower of Voices PDF (the
Islamic sundial)
Redesign images
Site plan PDF for
"Bowl of Embrace" redesign (now called simply "The Flight 93 Memorial")
Documents
“White Paper,”
prepared by the Flight 93 National Memorial Project Partners,
August 19, 2007
Flight 93 Families Op-Ed in
defense of crescent design, 9/14/2005.
Announcement of 9/11/2008 Washington DC fundraiser for the Flight 93
memorial, cancelled August 2008.
Dr. Daniel Griffith
("anything
can point toward Mecca, because the earth is round")
Professor Daniel
Griffith's report for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review on the various blog
claims that a person facing into the Crescent of Embrace would be facing Mecca,
sent to me by Griffith July 26, 2006. Griffith's file name: "Greensburg Tribune
Review comments - for distribution." [The Greensburg Tribune Review is a
subsidiary of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.]
Email sent to Griffith's colleagues
at the University of Texas, January 29, 2008, explaining that they have a unique
responsibility to correct the disinformation that Griffith has been feeding the
public about the Mecca orientation of the crescent.
Griffith's email to
Alec Rawls, the Park Service and the press, February 6, 2008, dismissing the
Mecca orientation of the crescent by claiming that the crescent
points to the Vatican. My response,
pointing out that this is because the Vatican sits on the great circle line
between the crash site and Mecca.
Memorial Project
Superintendent Joanne Hanley
Hanley's
response to some of the people who
carbon-copied her in on the 11/12/2007
blogburst letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne.
Hanley's
response to 6/08 email campaign
demanding to know WHO is being depicted as breaking our peaceful circle and
turning it into a giant Mecca-oriented crescent.
Two
emails from myself to Memorial Project Superintendent Joanne Hanley, warning
her about the threat posed to herself by architect Paul Murdoch's plot to plant
a terrorist memorial mosque on the Flight 93 crash site.
Hanley's victim card
press release from immediately
after the 8-08 public meeting, where she falsely claimed to have been threatened
by critics.
Dr. Kevin Jaques and TBogg's deletion of
evidence
TBogg
comment on crescent design, left anonymously by Dr. Kevin Jaques in early
2006.
Copies of full TBogg comment threads, both
a) with the Jaques comment at the end
(5/29/06), and 2) with the Jaques comment
deleted.
Error theory
blog
posts on the deletion of
important evidence from the TBogg blog.
Kevin Jaques:
U.S. response to 9/11 should conform to sharia law.
Did AP try to erase Ramesh Santanam's article on the press
conference held by the Families of Flight 93 on May 2, 2008?
Original article still in
Google cache. Same URL now goes to
entirely different article. Is this
AP's doing? I don't know if this is anything or not. When I Google search the
title of the original article, I find it posted in plenty of places. ("Flight
93 families want memorial controversy to end" Of course that should say SOME
Flight 93 families.) Yet a number of the links go to the new story, indicating
an automatic update connected back to AP. Why would they update with an entirely
different article?
Perhaps because I sent them an email blasting them for
reporting a direct conflict of factual claims, and never checking the easily
checkable facts for themselves. The directly conflicting factual claims were
over the 44 translucent blocks on the flight path. Santanam reported:
Opponents also claim there is a plan to have 44 glass blocks,
for the 40 victims and four hijackers, in the design.
"That's an absolute, unequivocal fabrication that is being portrayed as fact,"
said Edward Felt's brother, Gordon Felt, president of Families of Flight 93.
"It's misleading and helps drive the conspiracy theory."
I emailed Santanam's "correspondent," Jennifer Yates, pointing
out to check the facts, all Ramesh had to do is "open up the design PDF's and
count," followed by:
The
Sacred
Ground PDF shows 43 inscribed blocks on the two part Memorial Wall that
follows the flight path just above the impact point:
At eye level are 43 “glass” (or translucent marble) blocks.
Forty are inscribed with the names of the 40 heroes. Three are inscribed with
the 9/11 date. Another graphic on the bottom of the PDF shows the individual
blocks.
For the 44th block, go to the
Entry Portal
PDF, which shows a giant glass block, marking the spot where the flight
path
breaks the circle in architect Paul Murdoch’s description:
44th glass block on flight path sits at end of Entry
Portal Walkway.
I
was a bit
hard on Ramesh:
What kind of reporter is Ramesh if he can’t even look at the
drawings of what he is reporting on? And he never contacted me: the person who
discovered most of the Islamic and terrorist memorializing features in the
design. Talk about mailing it in! Are you satisfied with that?
All of this is in the information we put out
announcing our petition, and it is printed on the
back of the petition. This stuff isn’t hard to find, especially if your
reporter would bother to ask.
I was just trying to get them to do some fact checking!
Instead they went the other direction and tried to erase the information that
they had put out. Bizarre.
Tim Sumner's
9-16-05 post, where he mistakenly thinks that Zombies
Crescent of Embrace graphic was rotated to make it face Mecca. (It is the
un-rotated crescent that points to Mecca. Zombies rotation of the graphic
actually HIDES the Mecca orientation of the crescent.)
Sumner is a 9/11 family member and a great patriot who
operates the 9/11 Families for a
Safe & Strong America website. Unfortunately, when he saw Zombie's animation
of the Tunisian crescent superimposed on the Crescent of Embrace design, he
thought that the fact that Zombie had rotated the Crescent of Embrace site plan
to match the Tunisian crescent instead of vice versa meant that the claims about
the crescent facing Mecca were based on a fraud. (Zombie knew nothing about the
Mecca orientation of the memorial when she rotated it, or else she would
obviously have rotated the Tunisian crescent instead).
Sumner is a main source of information for 9/11 family
members, so his confusion about the orientation of the crescent was and remains
a most unfortunate development.
The link above is to Sumner's article on the Wayback Machine.
In case that ever disappears, I put up a copy
on this website as well.
Verification page: fact
checking the 44 "glass" blocks on the flight path
Similar to the above, separated out so that it can be linked
from elsewhere and people won't have to scroll down the page to find it.
Verification page: The giant Mecca-oriented crescent
remains completely intact in the the
Bowl of Embrace redesign.
In particular, the circle is still broken.
Once Crescent of Betrayal comes out in bookstores, this
page will go live with a host of supplementary materials.
● A full set of color graphics, along
with links to the original Crescent of Embrace site plans.
The original Crescent of Embrace PDF's are behind password protection in the
Park Service archives You can get a password by calling 814 443-4557.
● An extensive set of addenda, including
a variety of analyses too detailed to include in the book, and numerous original
documents.
List of addenda here.
● Documentation of partisan dishonesty in
the war on terror, and especially the war in Iraq.
Part Four of Crescent of Betrayal includes extensive documentation of
dishonest anti-war reporting by the mainstream media. This documentation falls
into two categories.
● Dishonest attacks on the legitimacy
of the war in Iraq (Iraq War hoaxes).
List of Iraq war hoaxes here.
● Misreporting on the progress of the
war in Iraq.
List of dishonest reporting categories and incidents here.
There was not room in the book to be as thorough as I would like to be with
this documentation, so I am posting additional sections online. To keep them
in context, I am posting these chapters on dishonest war reporting in their
entirety here on the website. Content that appears only online is marked, and
may be added to over time.
Free download of
Crescent of Betrayal, the Director's Cut.
Order print edition of Crescent of Betrayal.
Crescent of Betrayal,
main page
Misc. items:
Copy of Google snapshot of order
page for text of Jeremiah Wright's "Audacity of Hope" sermon, no longer
available.
Web-page copies RE: the Pentagon's
lies about the Navy's rescue of Captain Philips off the coast of Somalia, April
2009.
Other miscellaneous
stuff that I need to host someplace.
All content of this website © Alec Rawls 2007