Friday, September 13, 2024

Man Crusades Against US Navy’s ‘Swastika’ Building

(Aug. 20) — A few years ago, thanks to Google Earth, the world became aware of a U.S. government building shaped like a swastika.

Avrahaum Segol, a U.S. resident who is now an Israeli citizen, vowed to see the design of San Diego’s Naval Amphibious Base Coronado changed. He enlisted the Anti-Defamation League, California U.S. Rep. Susan Davis and others, but to no avail. That does not mean, however, that he’s given up.

“The Navy started thinking about options to reshape the building — but it turned out to be an expensive and lengthy process, and today the building remains pretty much the way it was built,” reports Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper. “The first option for renovation cost $625,000. This was a single canopy option that could have been approved locally, but the cost of multiple canopies exceeds our authority to approve,” explained Angelic Dolan, Naval Base Coronado Public Affairs Officer.

Read the entire AOLNews article here.

See a video of the building below:



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