With all the anthrax mania in the last couple of weeks (& maybe it has some justification), the atrocity at the WTC has lost some of its prominence.

Graphic photos from that atrocity may never be shown -- though gruesome photos and tall tales of the Taliban will show up in our media regularly. We need to keep reminding the world of just what happened here on 9/11.

bump for us all to remember.

We need to keep reminding the world of just what happened here on 9/11.

I heartily agree. For every Taliban propaganda photo that appears in the media,
we should publish photos from 9/11.

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RememberThe11th.com (1000+ photos etc.)

Thanks for the link. The 'heroes' page is great.

All of the content on THAT page is courtesy of Freeper Jeff Head, who thankfully allowed me to use it.

Thank you so much for this link.

A reminder of why we are doing what we are doing...

Thanks very much for posting that link. Clicking on the montage to bring up the full-sized photo brought back all the emotions re the 11th. Whoever created that montage produced a true work of art.

He has not yet returned to work.

Well, given that his job was that of WTC elevator operator, I guess that returning to work isn't really an option, unless elevator operators rotate from building to building at the behest of some central office for elevator operators somewhere...

He received counseling at St. Mary Hospital in Hoboken and at his union local's offices in Manhattan. He has been to four memorial services since the attacks and expects to go to many more. He has not yet returned to work.

I am not trying to be morbid, just curious. If he was an elevator operator at the WTC where would he go to return to work? I mean wouldn't that be like trying to return to your job as a ballast man on the Hindenberg after its final arrival at Lakehurst?

Thank you. That was my work - The photos get me every time - I keep looking at them and am amazed at how distant it seems already.

Here are links to various size and image qualities of the Montage:

4.8 meg - FULL SIZE best quality

2.3 meg - FULL SIZE good quality

Reduced size - 245k

I recall a survivor, early on, who recounted his story of rushing by the bank of elevators on his floor (somewhere in the sixties or seventies, I think) and hearing the screams from people in the elevators as they plummeted past his floor followed by the whipping of the cables against the inside of the shafts. God bless the victims.

You are correct. As horrible as it is, we mustn't ever forget...

I hope that this elevator operator, and others with similar experiences, continue to talk about what they saw and how they felt. It will help them if they are able to talk about it, and if they can stand to actually live through it, I guess we can stand to hear about it.

Bump for the memory...that poor man has PTS..He will never be the same..just another victim..just move on...

If it makes you feel any better about those people in the elevators that were falling, all modern elevators have speed brakes that will slow their descent if the cables break. This was the great invention of Mr. Otis that made elevators safe. An unpleasantly fast fall but not necessarily fatal. The bigger problem for those in the elevators is that the jet fuel washed down the shafts on fire. A person my wife works with knows a woman who was in an elevator that was heating up from the fire and sustained severe burns on her arms prying herself out. She doesn't even know how she got to the hospital.

A part of me is happy that the American news has been tasteful enough to now show all the bodies. And a part of me thinks that sanitizing the attack is a bad thing -- that perhaps if people did see the real horror (and I've heard enough accounts from people who were nearby -- both in the media and in person -- that the falling people were something that no one can forget who saw it), that maybe we would be less likely to go soft and forget about it.

Go here to read 57 more short stories about 9/11
Some talk about the real terror that happened. Like the woman who was standing on the sidewalk, when a airliner engine came crashing down right down on top of her. I read about this account somewhere else, the engine landed in front of a Burger King, then in the link above I read how it also landed on top of the woman.

I don't think any of us that were not there can really get a full sense of the horror that these people saw and experienced.
I know it sounds strange wanting to read the horror stories, but I feel that we all need to know exactly what these people experienced. We need to remember and know exactly what these nasty people did to our fellow americans.

God Bless them All and God Bless America!

...part of me is happy that the American news has been tasteful enough to now show all the bodies. And a part of me thinks that sanitizing the attack is a bad thing...

I have been thinking the same thing for the past couple of days (ever since the picture of the dead Afghani children was posted). I've talked to people who have been at the site of the WTC (a couple who just came back recently), and they have all said that TV cannot get across how horrible it is, even after they've cleared a lot of the site. There is a terrible smell in the air, and smoke, and ash still all over everything, and every once in a while, someone will turn over a piece of debris and find a part of a body, or a picture from somebody's desk or wallet, and the horror of all the dead who are still unaccounted for hits them again.

It just seems so ghoulish to want these pictures to be published, also disrespectful and hurtful to the families who've lost loved ones, and we should protect them from any more pain. But if there are many more pictures of dead and injured children in Afghanistan, perhaps we should consider sending out a few pictures to counteract their propaganda. Or at least bring out more stories about the children who died in the attacks, and those who were orphaned, about the horror that people saw at the WTC & the Pentagon (many stories that I've read on here were heartrending), etc.

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You put together that montage? I am very impressed with your work.

It's a far more powerful image than that AIDS quilt ever could have been.

FWIW, the imagry of 9-11 will never be "distant" if we have the means to remember it. When I viewed your montage close up, all of the emotions of that day and week came storming back.