I have never even thought of these poor souls that jumped as suicide, and ignorantly I never thought that families would reject the idea that their loved one would do it because it brought shame. Is it odd to have never thought of this?
It is these “jumpers” and the passengers of Flight 93 that haunt me the most. Both had to make decisions that I am not sure I could handle.
I don’t think I can watch the memorials on TV on Sunday, I remember it like it was yesterday and the hurt for the families is overwhelming. God Bless them all.
I think that one reason we don't see much about these people is the horror of it, not the "shame". We "see" their deaths in a way we don't see the deaths of the people in the planes nor in the collapsing towers. We know they were faced with a horrific choice: die from fire, smoke, or jumping. How do you possibly make such a choice? Yet they were forced to. Seeing the jumpers or fallers maybe for many of us makes what happened even more personal and painful.
Certainly, they were all murder victims as much as those in the planes and in the collapsing towers.
Cathy, I can’t watch anything, either. I remember it like it was yesterday with all the emotion I felt that day. I don’t have to watch a documentary to remember because it is seared in my mind.