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The winning design for the memorial to United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., was called "Crescent of Embrace"; it included, beside a chapel with wind chimes, a crescent-shaped cluster of maple trees and a white memorial wall. Conservatives questioned the propriety of inadvertently incorporating an Islamic symbol into the commemoration of our first victory over Islamism. Maybe they protested too much: The Allies in World War II used the V-for-victory motif from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, even though Beethoven was a German. ...