The Falling Man. Do you remember this photograph? (The man who jumped from World Trade Towers)

esquire ^ | September 2003, Volume 140, | By Tom Junod

[Monty22]

I suppose it's comforting to think the murdered people falling out of the buildings 'embraced' their fate and were ok with it. I have a feeling that's the exact opposite of their experience however.

[bedolido]

amazing! thanks for the thought provoking words.

[Texas_Dawg]

I suppose it's comforting to think the murdered people falling out of the buildings 'embraced' their fate and were ok with it. I have a feeling that's the exact opposite of their experience however.

I was there watching it that day. This article is really, really stupid.

[Cindy]

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: "ATTACK ON AMERICA!" (Updated Daily)
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html

[ambrose]

bump

[.38sw]

Yes, I remember that photo. It was published in our paper. These photos should be published. We should know the horrors that people suffered that day. Instead, we get sanitized reporting. People jumped to escape the heat and smoke and fire. They jumped to certain death.

[Maria S]

I have a great fear of heights; jumping out of one of those buildings from the height that those poor people did...my worst nightmare, literally! They must have been terrified out of their minds.

[r9etb]

This article is really, really stupid.

LOL!!! I thought so, too.

[End Times Sentinel]

At 8:46 tomorrow, I will be standing under an American Flag, burning a koran.

 

 

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[CJ Wolf]

where?

[alnitak]

They were called "jumpers" or "the jumpers," as though they represented a new lemminglike class.

I don't like this article. I couldn't read to the end. I found its tone patronising, and a little "odd". I'm not saying it's warped, but it's definitely "confused". Just what is the author trying to say with all those words?

I found the suggestion that Americans have chosen to forget or ignore the tragedy insulting, especially to the souls of those who lost their lives. I suspect the author is projecting his liberal sensibilities - I very much doubt that anyone on this forum has forgotten what happened, or wishes to forget. I for one (and I am not an American, so I experienced Sep 11 at some remove, though it still affected me deeply) never wish to forget. I want it to remain seared in my brain for the rest of my life BECAUSE it was the most terrible thing that has happened in my lifetime, and it is only through remembering the terror, and understanding the magnitude of this act, that we can draw the strength for the fight that lies ahead. Unfortunately, I think there are still too many people in the West who do want to forget, to turn the other cheek, to ignore attacks upon us - or to cower in the corner in the hope that the war will pass them by.

[.38sw]

Maybe you should give it try and see how your form is. Please.

[MEG33]

My horror is at what was going on in that building that made them take such a terrible option.I don't think the horror should be hidden.These people were murdered and we must remember the terror they faced.NEVER FORGET

I pray comfort for those who had to watch helpless to do anything.I recall the sadness on the faces of the firefighters as they withdrew..helpless to rescue anyone else.

[bicycle thug]

How about if we push you out of a helicopter at that height and see how you do? I've got your 10.1 right here for you.

Some people...

[boxerblues]

bttt for later

[CJ Wolf]

You suck, Not funny at all.

[Alouette]

Indeed, Tumbling Woman was perhaps the redemptive image of 9/11

It was pornographic trash. I stopped reading here.