{"id":230,"date":"2008-10-01T13:06:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T18:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=230"},"modified":"2018-10-31T09:44:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:44:41","slug":"911-memorial-and-stunt-roller-derby-rink-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Memorial and Stunt Roller Derby Rink Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s talk about the 9\/11 memorial at the Pentagon<\/a>.\u00a0 (and you can read more here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

184 benches on a two acre plot of land, each with an illuminated pool of water beneath them.<\/p>\n


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So what\u2019s the thinking there?\u00a0 \u201cHey!\u00a0 Come to the Pentagon.\u00a0 Bring your skateboard!\u201d<\/p>\n

Or maybe this is a distraction in the event of a future attack.\u00a0 The terrorist staring through the window of the cockpit and wistfully thinking of his childhood BMX dirt bike when\u2026 Ackmed!\u00a0 Pull up!\u00a0 We\u2019re going to hit the retaining wall!<\/p>\n

Though the retaining wall isn\u2019t much of an obstacle:<\/p>\n

A gray concrete retaining wall around the memorial park ranges from 3 inches tall, representing the youngest victim, Dana Falkenberg, who was just three years old, to a height of 71 inches tall, for the oldest victim (71 years)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that would have been better if they went by height.\u00a0 The shortest victim was three year old Dana Falkenberg, and the tallest victim, at seven foot, is not really missed because he always sat in the front row during the video briefings.\u00a0 And here\u2019s a seven foot section of the retaining wall to help illustrate just how annoying he was.<\/p>\n

Poor Dana, though.\u00a0 Some kid gets killed by terrorists and all she gets is a bench on an obstacle course and three feet of retaining wall?\u00a0 We\u2019ll mourn the loss of innocence with as little concrete as possible.\u00a0 And an illuminated pool full of McDonald\u2019s wrappers and pennies.<\/p>\n

I love this:<\/p>\n

The direction of the bench, signifies if the victim was a passenger or in the Pentagon at the time of the crash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really?\u00a0 Hey, see those benches facing your office?\u00a0 Yeah, you would have died.<\/p>\n

Or maybe they\u2019re going for the Stratego theme?\u00a0 If so, I want to be on the Pentagon side, because they have more pieces.<\/p>\n

And are there benches for the terrorists?\u00a0 Those can have little anti-pigeon spikes on them.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a model-shot<\/a> for you skateboarders.\u00a0 Send me the Youtube link after you get out of jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s talk about the 9\/11 memorial at the Pentagon.\u00a0 (and you can read more here). 184 benches on a two acre plot of land, each with an illuminated pool of water beneath them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[399],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","tag-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}