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The photo of the man who jumped (or fell) to his death from the World Trade Center is part of the big picture. It's very easy at a time like this to be unable to see the forest for the trees. As Stalin said, "One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." These events are so overwhelming that the losses on an individual level may not be entirely comprehensible.

I thought long and hard before I decided to include that photo. I believe that the scope of this monstrous crime needed to be illustrated on an individual level. Across the New York Metro area, the Washington Metro area and the entire nation, individual fathers and mothers lost their daughters and sons; children lost their parents; wives lost their husbands.

The only thing that made me hesitate in the end was the question of whether someone would be able to recognize the falling man as a member of their family who was lost. This photo isn't that precisely focused and the clothes are very nondescript.

i wish you hadn't shown the one of the person falling.
i hope bush is looking at these over and over and over!

I was repulsed like you too rockfish59...at first.
But this sort of photo is Truth, and MUST be shown.

I remember General Schwarzkopf (sp?) narrating a special commerative program
on Pearl Harbor, just before the 50th Anniversary on Dec. 7, 1991.

The General, in describing the human toil from the attack, mentioned that photographs
of large trashcans behind a hospital FULL of arms and legs amputated from soldiers and
sailors were suppressed.
(I can't remember if he gave the official reason, but I suppose it was the sensitivities
of that time, as well as preventing mass lynching of Japanese-Americans.)

However, as we get into the nitty-gritty of dealing out justice to the COWARDS who
perpetrated WTC/Pentagon attacks...it doesn't hurt to see what happened to the victims
who deserve to be avenged.