Mystery surrounds those who jumped (From the Towers)

http://www.iht.com/articles/538337.html ^ | Saturday, September 11, 2004 | Kevin Flynn and Jim Dwyer

[ApesForEvolution]

What would you do?

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I guess some folks would prefer to melt than crunch.../s

What an inane argument...

[ApesForEvolution]

Bears! lol

I need a nap.

[speedy]

it is nice to know, at least, that some people up there in the liberal Northeast have their heads on right

Thanks, RD. Oh, we're out here, just outnumbered for the time being (hard to believe that Reagan carried Massachusetts TWICE!!) Hey, I was rightwing from birth, with rightwing parents, rightwing grandparents -- made it easy for me. It can be frustrating in a hotbed like Boston, but on the other hand, it will be that much sweeter on November 3 to see all the slit wrists and tears of anguish.

[kstewskis]

I guess with ASU in Tempe, you have your share of lefties, too

We sure do. That's why it was especially pleasing to have the Healing Field just a stone's throw from campus!

[Uncle Vlad]

"I had the misfortune of witnessing them firsthand. I averted my eyes as soon as I realized that it was human beings, not parts of the building, that were falling. It is not something you ever forget, and it should make every American burn with vengeance against the worthless scum who perpetrated this. It is still not clear to me why we as a nation are not united in wanting to obliterate anyone who sympathized with or supported this depravity."

Two images stick in my memory from that day: the pictures of people falling from the towers, and the pictures of joyous Palestinians dancing in the streets when they heard the news. That's one of the many reasons that I don't ever want to see a Palestinian state in the Middle East, or anywhere for that matter. EVER!

[speedy]

I'm with you, Vlad. The last thing we need now is another country whose main export is terrorism. And as if giving them their own country would modify their behavior.

[Uncle Vlad]

A while back, John Derbyshire had a wonderful piece about the Palestinians, and why he doesn't feel sorry for them:

http://digilander.libero.it/asdfghj2/dossier/John%20Derbyshire%20on%20Palestinians%20on%20National%20Review%20Online.htm

[HiTech RedNeck]

Not just graphic, it is a cheap trap for gawkers. Lots of sex links, right below the tragic pictures.

[Taffini]

>>This could just as easily been a building in Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans or Houston



I remember thinking on 9/11 just how many more buildings would have been attacked if Bush hadn't grounded every single plane in the country

I wonder how many were spared?

[fso301]

my dad had a special LIFE coffee table book

We had that book also. I looked through it many times.

[MissAmericanPie]

I hope no one thinks they committed suicide, they jumped to live, that minuscule chance that they might save themselves. They were murdered just like the people on the planes.

[hineybona]

Dont tell me that //please dont tell me that

[verity]

The authors are ghouls.

[ctdonath2]

Simple: you saw it; others didn't.

[Knitebane]

It's called Hobson's Choice - either there is only one option, or two options that are equally undesirable or virtually identical.

Hobsons Choice

[HitmanLV]

Many folks certainly jumped - my brother was an eyewitness to at least one couple who were holding hands and took off together, seperating on the way down. Almost no doubt they jumped.

I do think that some folks passed out from the heat, stress, or combo of the two. They fell from their perch, rather than 'jumped.'

[Uncle Vlad]

Whoever doesn't understand this is a truly lost soul.

And it stuns me how the Upper East Side could vote so overwhelmingly for Kerry in the last election. What's wrong with these people?

[processing please hold]

I have two phobias....Fear of burning alive. And fear of heights.

I don't know which I would choose if faced with that decision.

[processing please hold]

The Arab news showed people jumping.

And they laughed at it. The barbarians.