Navy to alter swastika-shaped barracks

Navy to alter swastika-shaped barracks

Map: Aerial View of 'Swastika' Barracks

Video: Navy barracks swastika-shaped

CORONADO, Calif. - The Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks complex that resembles a swastika from the air, a gaffe that went largely unnoticed before satellite images became easily accessible on the Internet.

The Navy said officials noted the buildings' shape after the groundbreaking in 1967 but decided against changing it at the time because it wasn't obvious from the ground. Aerial photos made available on Google Earth in recent years have since revealed the buildings' shape to a wide audience.

The Navy approved the money to change the walkways, landscaping and rooftop solar panels of the four L-shaped barracks, used by members of the Naval Construction Force at the Navy's amphibious base at Coronado, near San Diego.

"We don't want to be associated with something as symbolic and hateful as a swastika," Scott Sutherland, deputy public affairs officer for Navy Region Southwest, told the Los Angeles Times.

Online commentators remarked widely about the buildings' resemblance to the Nazi symbol.

Dave vonKleist, host of "The Power Hour," a Missouri-based radio-talk show, said he wrote to military officials calling for action.

"I'm concerned about symbolism," he said. "This is not the type of message America needs to be sending to the world."

The Navy decided to alter the buildings' shape following requests this year by Anti-Defamation League regional director Morris Casuto and U.S. Rep. Susan Davis.

"I don't ascribe any intentionally evil motives to this," Casuto said of the design. "It just happened. The Navy has been very good about recognizing the problem. The issue is over."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070926/...stika_barracks

[foreman]

Ultra's mom made the navy to do so.

Foreman You Are A Moron

[Adrian Wainer]

Originally Posted by F-14

"We don't want to be associated with something as symbolic and hateful as a swastika," Scott Sutherland, deputy public affairs officer for Navy Region Southwest, told the Los Angeles Times.

Well the Swastika is symbolic but it is not a symbol of hate, the Nazis hijacked it, it is ancient religious symbol of good fortune.

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http://clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/.../16/89609.html

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[Zahak]

Adrian is correct, it is an aryan symbol, the Zoroastrians, Hindus, Jainis, Sikhs, Buddhist and etc are still using it, truth be told it is the Tajiks symbol for fortune.

[Adrian Wainer]

And fine Girls they are too!

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[Adrian Wainer]

From The Times

January 19, 2005
Hindus reclaim their symbol of life

By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent

HINDUS in Britain have started a campaign to “redeem” the swastika from its Nazi past and reclaim it as the symbol of life and fortune it once was. The swastika is a 5,000-year-old symbol that has been used for centuries by Hindus, Buddhists and many other traditions to denote good luck, but because of the Nazis it has come to symbolise hate, anti-Semitism, violence, death and murder. The campaign, announced today, comes after members of the European Parliament called for a Europe-wide ban on the symbol after Prince Harry wore a swastika armband to a fancy dress party.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...icle414027.ece

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