{"id":13892,"date":"2021-06-01T07:06:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T07:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cranemarket.com\/blog\/?p=13892"},"modified":"2021-06-01T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T14:54:08","slug":"remember-when-a-crane-hoisting-a-american-flag-on-memorial-day-triggered-a-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/remember-when-a-crane-hoisting-a-american-flag-on-memorial-day-triggered-a-hate-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember when a Crane hoisting an American Flag on Memorial Day triggered a Hate Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"
I pray for a Memorial Day soon where people of all races, creeds, and colors can proudly look upon a crane hoisting the American Flag and see just that, an American Flag. And remember Memorial Day is a holiday for the mourning of ALL the military personnel who have died in the performance of their military duties defending our freedoms.<\/div>\n
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Did you know the American Civil War<\/b>\u00a0also\u00a0called the War<\/b> Between the States<\/strong>, has a generally accepted death toll of around 620,000, and many historians think the number should be higher, closer to 750,000 and possibly as high as 850,000 soldiers who died on both sides?<\/div>\n
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Let’s meet in the middle and agree 750,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Did you know that three-quarters of a million dead is more than the combined number of dead military personnel of all wars fought by the United States before and after the Civil War?<\/div>\n
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I ask what has changed in 160 years?\u00a0 \u00a0I see a country more divided than ever purposely designed to be divided by a Left\/Right paradigm.<\/div>\n
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Before what divides us consumes us, maybe it is time to celebrate what the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was founded on…. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.<\/div>\n
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Then regardless of anyone’s political belief or ideology, we can all look up at a crane hoisting a flag and proudly see an American flag representing all of us and not the supposed noose below dividing us.<\/div>\n
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\"\"A construction company building a parking structure at Central Connecticut State University had hoisted an American flag at the end of one of its steel cable loops to mark Memorial Day \u2014 but a complaint that the cable was a noose prompted campus officials to apologize and pledge to take down the cable as soon as possible.<\/div>\n

\u201cEarly this evening, we received a complaint about a possible noose found hanging from a construction site on the CCSU campus. Campus Police \u2026 investigated and found that it was not a noose but a standard steel cable loop hanging from a crane,\u201d wrote President Zulma Toro in an email to the campus community on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cA construction crew working on campus hung an American flag from the crane\u2019s cable to recognize Memorial Day,\u201d added Toro in her email, a copy of which was obtained by\u00a0The College Fix.<\/em><\/p>\n

Toro continued that steel cable loops are often used by cranes, but that there was another similar concern recently reported\u00a0regarding<\/a>\u00a0another nearby construction site. In the end, Toro sided with those offended by the steel cable loop\u2019s visual similarity to a noose.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuite frankly, I think it is reckless and tone-deaf behavior,\u201d Toro said in her email to the campus. \u201cWe have been in contact with the construction company and demanded that the cable be lowered tonight. We have a team on-site tonight monitoring the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

But as of Sunday morning the cable loop and its American flag remained up, and a beleaguered-looking campus administrator, interim Vice President for Student Affairs John Tully,\u00a0explained<\/a>\u00a0to a local news television station that it was difficult to find someone who could safely operate the crane at such short notice on a holiday weekend to get the cable loop down.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, he expressed his concern for those who thought the steel cable loop was a noose or looked like a noose.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe perception of its noose-like appearance is concerning. We were speaking to people last night who certainly felt some pain, we feel that pain, our president has issued a statement expressing her concern about this and we are working diligently to get it down,\u201d Tully told Fox 61.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the fact that the steel cable loop is not a noose does not matter to some in the community.<\/p>\n

Ronald Davis, president of the New Britain NAACP,\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0FOX 61 that \u201cRegardless of what someone else says about that, what I see, as a black man? That\u2019s a noose. Period. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. Take it down.\u201d<\/p>\n

But one intrepid\u00a0College Fix<\/em>\u00a0reader noticed there are several steel cable loops hanging from the crane, and the only one that appears to bother another is the one with the American flag on the end of it. He\u00a0cites<\/a> one image of the crane in which viewers can see three or four cable loops<\/p>\n

IMAGES: Screenshots: Fox6<\/a>1 and\u00a0WFSB<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hate-crime hoax: Noose reported on campus just crane\u2019s steel cable loop<\/div>\n
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But some choose to see the Wire Rope Suspending<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

JENNIFER KABBANY – FIX EDITOR<\/a>\u00a0\u2022<\/span>MAY 31, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

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