The Falling Man

MHGinTN@freerepublic.com ^ | 09/11/2008 | MHGinTN

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Most of us have seen the following picture, of the man falling from the burning towers, poised in an upside down plunge. Writers have opined many things regarding that falling man. Most feel he was plunging as victim toward his chosen death. None I've read have bothered--once it was established that the man in the photo is Norberto Hernandez, assistant chef in the Windows On The World restaurant--to pose the notion I'm about to offer:

When Norberto chose to plummet from the inferno, he likely had only the choice to be burned alive or die instantly from a fall of more than a thousand feet. That jump was no small, cowardly act. He chose to end his life his way, not as the result of victimhood. All that has been conjectured by journalists since the photograph burst upon the cosnciousness of the world.

But the one thing people have either missed or forgotten to notice is that Norberto is looking down! Why would a man watch the rushing, looming, deadly ground as he is about to be crushed by the impact at more than 150 miles an hour? I happen to believe it is because Norberto cared about others. He perhaps believed he could change his fall just enough at the end to avoid killing an innocent person on the ground.

Norberto Hernandez had the wondrous grace in his last moments to want to avoid hurting anyone else on this day of evil rising. He should be remembered for his grace, the grace of a free man trying even in his last moment of life to avoid harming any other fellow human being.

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When we say ‘never forget’, we ought to have a list of things that the murders of 911 should elicit. Like the bankruptcy of the religion which emulates murdering people of other cultures, like the reality that we are in a war with these primitive bastards of terrorizing Islamics, like the reality that a democrat president refused to acknowledge it is a war even as hundreds of Americans were murdered by these Islamics and bringing down the Towers was attempted during his watch, like democrat Senators and congress critters don't have a clue what the enemy is or what is the intention of the enemy, like democrats want us entwined with these same murderers to send them our treasure for their oil thus enabling these primitives to assault us all the more in our dependency, like ... well, you get the picture. We have a lot to NEVER FORGET, but the media wants US to forget these specific aspects of/underlying the 911 murders.

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