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Desperation forced a horrific decision
USA Today ^ | September 3, 2002 | Dennis Cauchon and Martha Moore

Posted on 09/03/2002 10:15:04 AM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29

Edited on 04/13/2004 1:39:51 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

At first, it seemed like debris. Large objects were falling from the top of the World Trade Center's north tower, just a few minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 hit.

"It took three or four to realize: They were people," says James Logozzo, who had gathered with co-workers in a Morgan Stanley boardroom on the 72nd floor of the south tower, just 120 feet away from the north tower. "Then this one woman fell."


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To: ALASKA
I remember a photo showing the victims leaning out of windows, some standing on ledges. One woman was holding a baby out of a window. All dead - all gone.

This article does a good service in reminding those of us who promised never to forget what really happened. Most of these photos and videos were not shown after the first day or so after 9/11. Just like the footage of the Palestinians celebrating, some obiviously wanted these disturbing images destroyed in a memory hole.

41 posted on 09/03/2002 11:11:05 AM PDT by Martin Tell
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Accounts From the South Tower
42 posted on 09/03/2002 11:11:32 AM PDT by Beach_Babe
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To: thinktwice
It wasn't religious nuts. It was Muslim extremists.
43 posted on 09/03/2002 11:15:10 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: TrappedInLiberalHell
Typical of our media -- they glorify violence all the rest of the time, but when we really need to see it, they censor it.

I agree, we do need to see it. Not really something I want to see, but the US needs to be reminded of what happened, and that if we do not agressively carry out the war on terrorism to ABSOLUTE victory, any one of us could be jumping the next time something like this happens.

44 posted on 09/03/2002 11:15:15 AM PDT by ALASKA
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To: mvpel
"I would submit that they were people . . ."

Good point, but don't be too hard on the reporter, that would be an easy trap to fall into.

45 posted on 09/03/2002 11:15:55 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost
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To: dighton; Orual; general_re
Bravos to USA Today for publishing this.

The Los Angeles office of Cantor Fitzgerald had a "squawk box" connection with the New York office that morning. People in LA listened on their office intercom to the last moments of their doomed New York colleagues.


46 posted on 09/03/2002 11:17:04 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: Martin Tell
One woman was holding a baby out of a window

There were no babies among the casualties.

47 posted on 09/03/2002 11:17:06 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: TheMom
Bump.

Eaker

48 posted on 09/03/2002 11:18:36 AM PDT by Eaker
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Give the finger to the Alan Alda "healing" messages the media will inundate us with this week....the anniversary is the right time to rekindle our righteous anger. Make sure the world KNOWS WHO DID THIS- BARBARIANS OF RADICAL ISLAM.
49 posted on 09/03/2002 11:21:23 AM PDT by Jhensy
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
May God give rest to those poor souls...............


50 posted on 09/03/2002 11:21:29 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: TomSmedley
I'm not so sure they are. One of their main reasons for not supporting us on Iraq is their morbid fear of "destabilization" (defined as the royal family's potential ouster after their own people get a look at a reformed, republican Iraq). I really think that one of the reasons we are so hot for Saddam's head on a pike is because it will constitute a "democracy bomb" dead-center in the Middle East, sort of like Berlin during the Cold War.

The Saudis will fall, and it will come entirely from within, with no blame to fall on us at all. Other Muslim nations (Iran and Syria, we're looking at YOU) would follow.

Quite an elegant concept, if you ask me. I'm sure things are going on deeply under the table to help bring it about. Personally, I would drink a toast of good Scotch while watching tape of the Saudi royal family hauled to the block and beheaded, followed by their vile mullahs.

Okay, maybe it's farfetched...but a variation on it worked during the Cold War.


51 posted on 09/03/2002 11:23:10 AM PDT by Long Cut
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Bastards
52 posted on 09/03/2002 11:23:41 AM PDT by Delbert
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
This is what those of us who were there saw and will never forget.

It infuriates me when anyone says that we have no justification in hunting terrorists wherever they lurk. This was the most deadly attack on America in the country's history and the apologists on the left suggest that we have no business hunting terrorists.

I pray that President Bush takes this battle to the regimes that support terrorism and destroys them before the eyes of the whole world.

53 posted on 09/03/2002 11:26:47 AM PDT by Constitutional Patriot
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To: segis
I pray often for all of you who saw, heard, touched, tasted, and smelled things that day that NO ONE should ever be exposed to.

May the Lord give you peace.

May we NEVER forget that day.

54 posted on 09/03/2002 11:27:10 AM PDT by mombonn
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To: SkyPilot
Go HERE and REMEMBER...
55 posted on 09/03/2002 11:27:52 AM PDT by Beach_Babe
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
The story of the victims who jumped to their deaths is the most sensitive aspect of the Sept. 11 tragedy. Photographs of people falling to their deaths shocked the nation. Most newspapers and magazines ran only one or two photos, then published no more. USA TODAY ran one photo Nov. 16.

The peasants aren't qualified to interpret these photos.

56 posted on 09/03/2002 11:28:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29; Snow Bunny; SassyMom; Aeronaut; Pippin; SpookBrat; AntiJen; souris; leadpenny; ..
Bumping my Canteen list:
(If you want off, please FReepmail)

Let's Roll


57 posted on 09/03/2002 11:28:46 AM PDT by Johnny Gage
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
I had lunch with someone who works frequently with the media last month. We were discussing the fact that the media had announced there were not going to re-play "shocking images" of September 11th, 2001.

As we threw about our ideas, our media friend exlaimed:

"The media do not re-play images that do nothing but shock and enflame negative passions!"

Just then, our waitress overheard us and said:

"Oh, you mean like the Rodney King video?"


58 posted on 09/03/2002 11:32:08 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: bayareablues
I'm glad they published this. NEVER FORGET.

Me too, but I am wondering why it has taken almost a year to see a story like this.

59 posted on 09/03/2002 11:33:58 AM PDT by ksen
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To: null and void
Rest in Peace my friends, you will be avenged 100 fold...

I pray you are right.

60 posted on 09/03/2002 11:37:28 AM PDT by ksen
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