Flight 93 Memorial

What follows is an open letter to columnist Jim Spencer of the Denver Post. It is in response to his column of September 14, 2005.

Mr. Spencer,

Might I be so bold as to remind you that the memorial to Flight 93 is paid for in part by U.S. tax dollars? In that average Americans are paying for at least a portion of the memorial, family members of those patriots (I refuse to call them victims) do not have an exclusive right to comment on the appropriateness of the memorial design. In your article, you write as if only family members, such as Mrs. Garcia, have standing to comment on the memorial.

The fact that the word crescent (Crescent of Embrace…..you and I both know that the crescent is the symbol of Islam) is used to describe the memorial, is an insult to those heroes that died preventing Flight 93 from crashing into the Capitol or White House; and, to have a red crescent appear in the design is beyond the pale.

I, for one, am grateful that Congressman Tancredo had the courage to speak out against what is very obviously a slam against America, Americans, and the heroes that struck the first blow in our nation’s war against Islamofascism.