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Los Angeles, Thursday, September 27, 2007
Photo:
the US Naval Construction Force barracks at the
Navy's amphibious base at Coronado, near San
Diego.  [World
safe again: AWPOW!] Navy to alter
swastika-shaped barracks 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 von Kleist, 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. 
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