I would like to think the passengers from Flight 93 look down from Vallhalla and wish they could kick the asses of their “loved ones” right about now.
Relatives of those who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 want the Bush Administration to seize the land needed for a memorial where the plane crashed in western Pennsylvania during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Families of Flight 93 sent a letter earlier this month asking President George W. Bush to empower the Secretary of the Interior to take the land in dispute from a homeowner who had been in negotiations with the National Parks Service, said Patrick White, vice president of the families’ organization.
Let’s see…we can honor the memory of our heroic countrymen by A) building them a nice memorial on an honestly purchased single acre of land where the crash actually occurred, or B) ass-raping a fellow citizen in the eminent domain seizure of 2000 acres of their land.
Hmm…
As others have noted, what in the fucking blazes are they doing thinking of using TWO THOUSAND ACRES for this memorial anyway? Yes, Flight 93-ers are absolute no-shit, balls-out heroes, but seriously you blood-sucking bastards, build a nice granite memorial that details their names and deeds, and DO NOT cheapen their sacrifice by building some fucking cash-vacuuming retail nightmare disguised as a “national park.”
I figure that if the landowner wants to sell 2,000 acres and the government wants to buy it, that’s one thing (although, like you, I prefer that tax dollars be limited to a monument), but hammering the property owner (and the taxpayers) to force a sale of 2,000 acres is ridiculous.
I say this as a person who regularly took Flight 93 to San Francisco and one who appreciates the heroism of those aboard that flight on 9/11.
Jim - PRS December 29th, 2008
Fucking idiots. They’re NOT entitled to anything. People die or get killed. Get over it! Okay, they died from a terrorist attack and were instrumental in preventing the plane from crashing into Camp David. Memorialize them, but DON’T fucking take what doesn’t belong to you because you think you’re entitled. Holy bloody fucking hell. If I thought that way, I’d fucking try to take the land where the Twin Tower stood. Doing that makes about as much sense as taking 2000 acres for selfish purposes. Fucking morons!
OrangeNeckInNY
December 29th, 2008
Going on record here as saying if I ever die in ANYTHING like a 9-11, DO NOT DO THIS TYPE OF SHIT ON MY BEHALF. You wanna honor my dead memory or anything like that, you go find the bastards who killed me and KILL THEM. Twice. Thanks.
dogette
December 29th, 2008
This is dumb honor them but don’t cheapen their heroic.
Brad essex
December 29th, 2008
LG… why you wanna come back from the holiday and get me all worked up right out of the box????
This is absolutely, positively the most hypocritical piece of bullshit ever pulled in the name of “imminent domain”…
These asshats better not be successful in stealing this guy’s land. I will freak out. FREAK OUT, I tell you!
It won’t be pretty.
jana
December 29th, 2008
According to Wikipedia, Arlington National Cemetery occupies 624 acres.
And another thought has occurred to me: Aren’t war memorials traditionally built after the war is over?
Oh, my mistake. It’s not a war memorial. It’s a “Crescent of Remembrance.” /spit
rickl
December 30th, 2008
isn’t there already a memorial which was a very contentious issue since the assklowns playing with it tried to incorporate islamic symbols?
Wifey, who lived most of her life on the Texas coast, has always been incensed with the whole 9/11 aftermath … the huge sums paid to survivors (it bugs her since the OKC bombings didn’t generate huge payouts, and hurricanes used to be acts of God which you recovered from with the help of your church and community.
This whole victimhood society thing suck swampwater thru a straw! It’s never about the victim anymore .. just how much their memory can be milked for. I’ll second Dogette’s comment … if they manage to waste me … waste them back and then scatter my memory with my ashes … I don’t need no monuments nor shrines nor any other tourist attraction for the simple act of being in the wrong place at the right time.
pete in Midland
December 30th, 2008
What Dogette said.
Further, one can easily determine a maximum number of visitors a day, make enough parking spaces (24 would probably suffice) and you get 2 acres to build on around it.
What a vainglorious bit of nonsense.
LauraB
December 30th, 2008
It’s good to know that I wasn’t the only one who thought this was asinine.
D.W.
December 30th, 2008
2000 acres is 3-1/8 square miles. That’s an awful lot. All the extra acreage is of course for the aggrandizement of the “planners” who came up with this boondoggle.
pst314
December 30th, 2008