Posted on 09/10/2012 6:11:37 PM PDT by combat_boots
"A few days after the falling man picture was published, Peter Cheney a journalist from the Globe and Mail was asked to attempt to identify him. He had the image enhanced and immediately saw that the man was black or hispanic with a goatee and a waiter's jacket. Cheney thought that he might have jumped from Windows on the World restaurant which was crowded with over 150 guests and staff at the time of the attack.
He began to look for one man among the thousands who were missing that day. It seemed hopeless but late one night Cheney saw a photo near Times Square of a missing man in a white jacket; Norberto Hernandez, a pastry chef. His sister, Milangros had seen the photo and thought it might be of her brother.
Cheney went to the funeral but the family refused to speak to him or look at the picture. Deeply religious they could not face the thought that their husband and father had chosen to end his life on that day. "I know what he was thinking, he was thinking of me, of his daughters, his grandchildren and his mother. 'I'm not gonna jump, I'm going to try and escape any way possible ... but the last thing I would do is jump out of the window.'" his wife said later. Cheney went on to publish an article where he identified Hernandez as the falling man.
Tom Junod, a writer for Esquire magazine was haunted by the photo and convinced that America needed to confront the falling man and the others who jumped to their death that day. "I felt the falling man had been pushed to the side, there was an element of exclusion
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Thank the Liberals and media for people starting forget. Remember Hillary “What did President Bush know, and when did he know it”? That was the start of liberals changing the subject from being patriotic to questioning it. Liberals have ruined my once proud country. I hate them all!
I have another image that was burned into my mind.
I lost sleep over for several nights afterwards.
It was an image of a man holding a woman’s hand
as they fell. I imagined that he was an executive
holding the hand of his secretary. I was horrified
just thinking about their last minutes before the
decision to jump. I still am.
About that time, I remember a TV commercial selling a cd of
old songs from the ‘50s. It was in black and white and all
were dressed in clothes of the day. Remembering how innocent
those times were and what we’d lost made me weep for our country. I had red eyes for days. They finally, thank God, quit showing it.
And it was only in those days following that I noticed the
sound of a commercial plane flying over our house every night around 10:30 or 11:00. It was eerie and a constant reminder. I’d never hew heard it or thought about it before.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1 Corinthians 15:55
Amen. Maybe God spared him the sting.
The image I will never forget are of the people climbing out of the building, hanging onto the outside of the building, desperate for air. I have sat staring at those pictures for hours, wondering what was going through their minds. What desperation. What hopelessness. I can’t imagine. It makes my soul cry.
I will never ever forget that day. I promise to never ever forget. Or forgive.
Our GOD is a very merciful GOD, and I,for one, believe that HE mercifully accepted each and every one of those souls into HIS KINGDOM.
The only word in that video that upset me was calling them "jumpers", they were trying to survive against all odds and for that NO one dare blame them, GOD is merciful.
Do we say, suicide when a young man or woman dons a uniform and submits to battle, knowing death is possible? Do call it suicide when a person escapes a burning vehicle, or jumps before a crash and yet dies from that jump? No, that would be ridiculous, they died trying to live.
The words "Jumpers" or "Suicide" should never be used when speaking of 9/11. God said HE will have mercy on whom HE will, we are not the judge, wiser to stay out of HIS department. jmo
12thgenAmerican.
Sounds like your folks have been around the country for quite a while. I’ve been able to trace some of my kin back to the mid/late 1600’s in the mid/upstate New York area. Around the Green County. Glad they stuck around. Sadly, I don’t think I could live in the northeasy any longer.
I think about it everyday and, of course, flew our flag at half staff yesterday. A reminder of what we haven’t done happens everytime I need to go to the airport and see the farcical “security” that’s been put in place. Evil intent knows no limits when it comes to creativity. Still praying for our country and our way of life.
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