Quite some time back, I came across this Swastika-shaped building via Google Maps, and posted the screengrab in my Flickr account. Since then, it became one of my most popular Flickr pictures, since strange stuff like this can become quickly viral. Loads of people (16,000+) have viewed the photo's page, and then various journalists contacted me and posted the photo on news stories in Europe and elsewhere.
After much passing around of Chris Silver Smith's geotagged Flickr photo of the Navy's swastika-shaped barracks in Coronado, California, the commensurate outrage has called for a change--some "home improvements." Just yesterday, the AP officially announced the Navy's plans to "change the walkways, landscaping and rooftop solar panels of the four L-shaped barracks"--as much as $600,000 in alterations. The decision was made upon requests by Anti-Defamation League regional director Morris Casuto and U.S. Rep. Susan Davis.
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.
thanks jerry!
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Then again, we look at any number of maps in Asia to see the swastika in reverse, indicating Buddhist (or is it Shinto) temples. After all, the symbol DID have an entirely different meaning before being adopted by Hitler.
K.R.Bayes
lat/lng: 32�41'53.09"N, 117�11'13.78"W (Google Earth)
Yes the Nazis were awful, but this building is not going to transform ala Megatron and nerve gas the local Synagogues.
$600,000 is not a small sum and could be spent on far more meaningful and helpful projects. (I will concede in terms of military spending it is a drop in the ocean).