Comments on: The Air Farce Memorial

By: andante

andante — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:49:39 +0000

…and most certainly could have done a better and far less expensive job designing the memorial

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:22:52 +0000

Only about 4% of Air Force personnel are on flying status. It takes 19 people to support that single flyer, and something should be said about them. A bomber on the ground surrounded by the flight crew and ground crew would have been more representative.

By: andante

andante — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:34:34 +0000

My first thought on reading of the dedication was “about damn time”, but I have to agree – it’s hardly fitting.

If they couldn’t have their $20M ‘victory’ celebration, I guess a $30M memorial will have to do.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:08:27 +0000

I would think that the simple stones of Arlington are the only reminder that anyone would ever need. The $30 million would have been better spent on the needs of those serving and their families.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:46:28 +0000

Inspired by contrails? Neocontrails, I’d say. (Didn’t Wesley Crusher get in big trouble for performing a maneuver similar to that “bomb blast” with other cadets at Starfleet Academy?)

I do not understand the need to make memorials either ugly or tacky. It is possible to do something truly different and still have the effect of evoking the intended state of mind: the first time I ever saw the Vietnam memorial, with people all about, tracing lost loved ones’ names from the Wall, leaving flowers, etc., I was deeply moved… and the memorial couldn’t be simpler, more elegant or more sobering. Memorials are not the place to be cute or clever.