[BlueLancer]

Hey, y'all you really need to take the time .. and believe me, it is long .. to read this one.

[general_re]

Well worth the time - thanks for the flag.

[Orual]

Gut-wrenching and passionate writing - very Italian. Thanks for the ping.

[aculeus]

Thanks for the ping. I read this when it was published last year.

She mentions the people who jumped. Last night on Fox's NY channel they had an extremely gripping 9-11 program consisting of video taken that day by a three-man crew who were so close to WTC that they narrowly escaped death when the towers fell.

Before the collapse of the buildings they zoomed in on an incredible scene. A man on one of the burning floors was hanging outside his window -- he was completely outside --holding on to something connected inside his office.

The reporters speculated that he was somehow trying to lower himself. They were wrong, IMO. What he did was go outside suspended from some "nonflammable" material (wire? cable?) with the idea that he would climb back in after the fire burned itself out.

Then the poor guy lost his grip and fell, never knowing that all was lost anyhow.