Crescent of Embrace. Design change, or just the name?

Earlier this year there was an uproar (at least in the blogosphere) over the design for a memorial for Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. Admirably, Michelle Malkin was all over it. Today she tells us about a change in the memorial in which the "Crescent" will now be a circle, and Michelle seems to approve. I'm wondering if she even looked at the new design. For your examination, the old design and the new:

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It looks like all they did was change the name. The red crescent is still very visible, and that is still offensive. I hate to say it, but I actually agree with someone at the HuffPo again. This time it is Michelle Pilecki:

The stories heralding the "change" in the design note the new name, "The 40 Memorial Groves," and report that "a round, bowl-shaped area would replace ... a crescent-shaped cluster of maple trees." But the bowl-shaped area was always there. And if you actually look at the design (page 4 of a pdf document), you'll see that it's still a crescent -- sorry, broken circle -- of trees. Lots more trees (i.e. a bigger "crescent," but less obviously a crescent shape in this drawing), with 40 stands of trees, one for each of the Flight 93 heroes.

Though the nation's media aren't playing it that way, it's still basically the same design, but with a new name and more trees. The former should keep the RW critics happy, the latter should please the tree-hugger types.

Pilecki is wrong on one thing. This right wing critic is still not happy, even if Michelle Malkin is.

Update
Error Theory goes into some serious detail on the problems of this memorial. He sees much more than just the red crescent.