A Minaret, used as a call to prayer: “the design was altered from the original crescent shape, and the project eventually will feature a 93-foot-high Tower of Voices containing 40 wind chimes” … it is STILL in a cresent shape, Still has a Memorial glass block for the hijackers placed facing Mecca at the head of the “memorial wall”…nothing has changed, this is still an open air Victory Mosque” for moslems.
View of the Memorial Plaza from the Western Overlook – June 2011 (Image credit: Richard Snodgrass) View of the …
On Sept. 11, 2001, two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan. A third hurled into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. But a fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark, N. J., to San Francisco, never made it to the hijackers’ destination.
The 40 passengers and crew members realized their flight had been hijacked, and from air phones they learned about the attacks on the other sites. According to accounts from the phone conversations, the group took a vote and vowed to take back their plane, which crashed into a field in a remote, rural area near Shanksville, Pa., never to reach its possible target, the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. — only 20 minutes flying time from the crash site.
In 2005, relatives of those who died on Flight 93 helped select Paul Murdoch’s winning design for a memorial out of some 1,000 entries. The remote area proved a challenge. It is a former coal-mining site that required major soil and water cleanup. There also were landowner conflicts and a controversy over a crescent in the design that some took to be a Muslim symbol in the original plan.

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