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18 comments to "Navy’s Barracks Looks Like Giant Swastika from the Air"

  1. Ali S.
    September 27th, 2007 at 5:31 pm

    Oh dear me! How can anyone get away with creating that didn’t someone realize the shape of it during the sketch-ups and planning stages?

  2. Jimmy
    September 27th, 2007 at 5:44 pm

    People still believe its tainted after it was used as a nazi symbol, shame really.

  3. david
    September 27th, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    yeah i may be making myself sound ignorant but wasnt it an African symbol for luck or something?

  4. Perceive
    September 27th, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    We wouldn’t want to offend any sky Jews now.

  5. A
    September 27th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

    I would have never known if this wasn’t posted. Would you?

    I think they’ll be fine saving the landscaping money and buying things they need.

  6. redphone
    September 27th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    This is excessively old news. Is the Navy really going to actually do something, or is that rumor?

  7. kid icarus
    September 27th, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    the nazi swatsika is on a tilt, the buddhist swastika lies flat. it’s sad that a lot of people will never know this was/is a truly peaceful symbol from before 1000BC, all because of an moustache wearing maniac’s dellusion.

  8. Vonskippy
    September 27th, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    For way less then $600K they could hang triangle shaped “sails” from each leg and it’d look like a giant pin-wheel.

    Surely that couldn’t get anyone’s panties in a bunch.

  9. kljh39ygbe9gt2qw
    September 27th, 2007 at 8:20 pm

    Why change it? Are they afraid of the RAF bombers?

  10. Zakk Underhill
    September 27th, 2007 at 9:49 pm

    The swastika was used by many different cultures and in many different styles, you can’t say it means something different just by tilting it. There’s a lot more to it than that. As for this building I say leave it the way it is.

  11. LOLWTF
    September 27th, 2007 at 11:12 pm

    JEW KILLERS. not. america is the biggest jew lover so why would anyone get pissed….

  12. Lasse
    September 28th, 2007 at 5:24 am

    After fleeing Germany after the war, Hitler became a succesfull american architect in the 60´s.

    By the way, an amphibious base? Where is the water?

  13. Powell
    September 28th, 2007 at 8:54 am

    That 600K could be put to better way better use. Political correctness run amuk.

  14. TheSquid
    September 28th, 2007 at 9:09 am

    someone over at boing boing pointed out that the two adjacent buildings look like bombers heading towards the swastika. As if it was a giant 8 bit mural.

  15. Snuskie
    September 29th, 2007 at 1:24 am

    the dorms at UCSB, also built in the 60s on, have a similar look, but not nearly to the same extent.

  16. Adam Stanhope
    September 29th, 2007 at 5:11 am

    Sounds like a brilliant way to spend $600k.

  17. tuckmics
    September 30th, 2007 at 9:34 pm

    People are making a big deal about the $600K but the fact is that they are doing various upgrades to the building as part of regular maintenance/modernization and as a part of the project, they are doing some cosmetic/landscaping changes to disguise the shape. The navy is not modifying the shape of the building or spending $600K on changing the shape to appease anyone. Folks need to get all the info before passing judgement.

  18. blah
    March 11th, 2008 at 4:43 am

    actual the symbol orginated to become the sign on a car.


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