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THE FALLING MAN REVISITED By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 15, 2006 10:49 PM Some images leave an indelible mark on your heart and soul. Like "The Falling Man" on 9/11: Credit: Richard Drew, AP His identity has not been confirmed, though many have speculated over the last 4 1/2 years. Tom Junod wrote an extraordinary piece for Eqsuire in September 2003 on "The Falling Man," offering several possibilities. His piece ended with this one: Jonathan Briley worked at Windows on the World. Some of his coworkers, when they saw Richard Drew's photographs, thought he might be the Falling Man....

At dawn on September 11, 2001 in Mount Vernon, New York, a man wakes, dresses, pulls black high-top trainers onto his feet, kisses his sleeping wife and heads to work in the north tower of the World Trade Center. Meanwhile in Queens another man — a pastry chef at Windows on the World, the twin towers’ top-floor restaurant — puts on jeans, a blue checked shirt and a Casio watch handed to him by his wife. She drives him to the station, where he waves goodbye, disappearing down the subway steps. In New York City and its suburbs more than...

I'd like to make some stickers out of 9/11 photos. I'm having trouble finding the picture of the poor man falling from the WTC with his clothes on fire. In LA some jerks and their guerilla vandalism are putting out paste-on posters with diatribes about arms and legs flying and does anyone have a needle and thread. I'd like to put this picture on some Avery labels, along with a shot of the 2nd plane approaching the South Tower, and put them on top of this poster with a caption saying: "You Mean For This?"

To observe this Sept. 11, 2001, anniversary, I urge critics of Attorney General John Ashcroft - especially the Democratic presidential candidates - to read the article "The Falling Man" in the current Esquire. A photo on page 176 shows the article's subject plunging headfirst from the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Taken by celebrated Associated Press photographer Richard Drew, the picture was printed once in various newspapers - then banned by the U.S. media as too awful for public consumption. The riveting article, by Tom Junod, chronicles the search to identify the "falling man," but the larger point...

      September 2003, Volume 140, Issue 3         The Falling Man By Tom Junod Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If he were...