Perhaps, Argent a semy of billets Celeste, on a bend Azure three roses Argent.

Michael Swanson;58571 wrote:

Perhaps, Argent a semy of billets Celeste, on a bend Azure three roses Argent.

Something like this?

http://www.dcroe.com/images/heraldry/2996draft01.png

Dohrman Byers;58543 wrote:

What about two stylized trees, budding with new life, their branches reaching out and entwining, perhaps rising from a mount of ashes?

Keeping in mind that the trees need work, is this along the lines of what you meant?

http://www.dcroe.com/images/heraldry/2996draft02.png

Here is an attemp at the two trees I suggested. Don’t know about tinctures.

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6739/911treesxl5.th.png

That is extremely nice, Fr. Byers.

Cheers,

Dale Challener Roe;58574 wrote:

Something like this?

http://www.dcroe.com/images/heraldry/2996draft01.png

Yeah.  Perhaps four roses for each of the four planes’s victims, the billets representing windows of the buildings.

Although the discussion I started in the thread,  A Learning Question, originally had nothing to do with this thread, the discussions played off each other in the back of my head.

So right now this a draft design I’m working on for my 9/11 project:

http://www.dcroe.com/images/heraldry/draft2996-01.png

Per Saltire Argent and Vert four acacia branches in cross stems joined in center counterchanged

Fr. Byers has a nice suggestion there.  The sapplings, rising, suggesting onward, upward growth, balanced in strength and proportion, sure do strike a chord in me.

Both designs - the two saplings and the roundel per saltire—are IMO very good heraldry.  For this purpose, I would prefer the readily apparent symbolism of the twin saplings.

I kept working on this design, but ultimately hit a wall.  So I asked for some help.

Sandy Turnbull designed the arms, and Terry Sarros emblazoned them.

Thanks guys.

http://www.project2996.com/images/armsofproject2996.png

Arms:

Per Pale Sanguine and Argent, a Poppy ensigned in Chief by four Mullets in Fess enarched all counterchanged

Crest:

From a torse of the colors and issuant out of flames a Bald Eagle displayed Proper

Dale,

:D

Take care,

Yes, a wonderful design, beautifully emblazoned.

Except for "sanguine," harumph, harumph.

(It looks like gules anyway—why not call it that?)

FAN-F***ING-TASTIC! (Did I say that out loud? :oops:)

I must agree with Phil:  The bald-eagle-turned-phoenix is wonderful.  Sandy and Terry (as well as yourself) are to be commended.