Most of the relatives of the victims who died when United Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 11, 2001 approved the plans for the memorial of these victims of having a Islamic crescent design and it has a wind-chime tower which mimics an Islamic minaret. Furthermore, it would point east toward the Islamic holy city of Mecca.
Though there are other victims relatives who disagree. Like Tom Burnett Sr., the father of a Flight 93 victim, who's angered by the alleged symbolism.
“It’s really revolting to me, this whole thing,” Burnett told the Times, “It’s an insult to my son and all the others.”
Five of those objecting told members of the Flight 93 Memorial Task Force and the Flight 93 Advisory Committee that the design should be scrapped because its apparent Islamic symbolism. Among them, the Times wrote, was Harry Beam, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who presented petitions with 5,300 signatures opposing the design to members of the Flight 93 boards.
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