Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Mystery surrounds those who jumped (From the Towers)
http://www.iht.com/articles/538337.html ^ | Saturday, September 11, 2004 | Kevin Flynn and Jim Dwyer

Posted on 09/11/2004 3:49:22 PM PDT by Maria S

NEW YORK Three years later, they remain open questions, and many people wonder if firm answers would lead to more pain or less, to practical lessons for society or to simply a spectacle for the morbidly curious. . How many people jumped from the upper floors of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11? . Why did so many more people jump from the north tower than the south? . What floors did they come from? . Who were they? . The attack on the World Trade Center was one of the most observed catastrophes in history, and those who fell or dropped from the towers were, briefly, its most public victims. They emerged one or two at a time from a blanket of smoke and fire that rendered mass death virtually invisible. Nearly all the others killed that day - whether high in the towers, on board the hijacked airplanes or deep inside the Pentagon - were beyond the sight of survivors and witnesses. Those who came through the windows of the towers provided the starkest, most harrowing evidence of the desperate conditions inside.

(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 81-100101-120121-140141-159 last
To: blue jeans

What would you do?

>>>

I guess some folks would prefer to melt than crunch.../s

What an inane argument...


141 posted on 09/12/2004 9:13:51 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 136 | View Replies]

To: ApesForEvolution

Bears! lol

I need a nap.


142 posted on 09/12/2004 9:14:21 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 140 | View Replies]

To: Recovering_Democrat
it is nice to know, at least, that some people up there in the liberal Northeast have their heads on right

Thanks, RD. Oh, we're out here, just outnumbered for the time being (hard to believe that Reagan carried Massachusetts TWICE!!) Hey, I was rightwing from birth, with rightwing parents, rightwing grandparents -- made it easy for me. It can be frustrating in a hotbed like Boston, but on the other hand, it will be that much sweeter on November 3 to see all the slit wrists and tears of anguish.

143 posted on 09/12/2004 9:33:34 AM PDT by speedy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 138 | View Replies]

To: speedy
I guess with ASU in Tempe, you have your share of lefties, too

We sure do. That's why it was especially pleasing to have the Healing Field just a stone's throw from campus!

144 posted on 09/12/2004 10:15:31 AM PDT by kstewskis (BUSH-GIBSON 2004)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 132 | View Replies]

To: speedy

"I had the misfortune of witnessing them firsthand. I averted my eyes as soon as I realized that it was human beings, not parts of the building, that were falling. It is not something you ever forget, and it should make every American burn with vengeance against the worthless scum who perpetrated this. It is still not clear to me why we as a nation are not united in wanting to obliterate anyone who sympathized with or supported this depravity."

Two images stick in my memory from that day: the pictures of people falling from the towers, and the pictures of joyous Palestinians dancing in the streets when they heard the news. That's one of the many reasons that I don't ever want to see a Palestinian state in the Middle East, or anywhere for that matter. EVER!


145 posted on 09/12/2004 10:20:05 AM PDT by Uncle Vlad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Vlad

I'm with you, Vlad. The last thing we need now is another country whose main export is terrorism. And as if giving them their own country would modify their behavior.


146 posted on 09/12/2004 10:54:02 AM PDT by speedy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 145 | View Replies]

To: speedy

A while back, John Derbyshire had a wonderful piece about the Palestinians, and why he doesn't feel sorry for them:

http://digilander.libero.it/asdfghj2/dossier/John%20Derbyshire%20on%20Palestinians%20on%20National%20Review%20Online.htm


147 posted on 09/12/2004 11:18:11 AM PDT by Uncle Vlad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 146 | View Replies]

To: SE Mom; All

Not just graphic, it is a cheap trap for gawkers. Lots of sex links, right below the tragic pictures.


148 posted on 11/01/2004 6:01:02 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 102 | View Replies]

To: Bobby777

>>This could just as easily been a building in Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans or Houston



I remember thinking on 9/11 just how many more buildings would have been attacked if Bush hadn't grounded every single plane in the country

I wonder how many were spared?


149 posted on 11/11/2004 1:27:38 PM PST by Taffini (I like Tony Soprano even though he is a fat boy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: Trasha

my dad had a special LIFE coffee table book

We had that book also. I looked through it many times.

150 posted on 11/11/2004 1:36:15 PM PST by fso301
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: Bobby777
I hope no one thinks they committed suicide, they jumped to live, that minuscule chance that they might save themselves. They were murdered just like the people on the planes.
151 posted on 11/11/2004 1:44:53 PM PST by MissAmericanPie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: weegee

Dont tell me that //please dont tell me that


152 posted on 11/11/2004 1:46:05 PM PST by hineybona
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Maria S

The authors are ghouls.


153 posted on 11/11/2004 1:48:18 PM PST by verity (The Liberal Media is America's Enemy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: speedy

Simple: you saw it; others didn't.


154 posted on 11/11/2004 1:50:48 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Storm Mountain LRR 1&2)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Fiddlstix
It's called Hobson's Choice - either there is only one option, or two options that are equally undesirable or virtually identical.

Hobsons Choice

155 posted on 11/11/2004 2:06:05 PM PST by Knitebane
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Maria S

Many folks certainly jumped - my brother was an eyewitness to at least one couple who were holding hands and took off together, seperating on the way down. Almost no doubt they jumped.

I do think that some folks passed out from the heat, stress, or combo of the two. They fell from their perch, rather than 'jumped.'


156 posted on 11/11/2004 2:08:54 PM PST by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PoorMuttly
Whoever doesn't understand this is a truly lost soul.

And it stuns me how the Upper East Side could vote so overwhelmingly for Kerry in the last election. What's wrong with these people?

157 posted on 11/11/2004 2:16:56 PM PST by Uncle Vlad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: bert
I have two phobias....Fear of burning alive. And fear of heights.

I don't know which I would choose if faced with that decision.

158 posted on 11/11/2004 3:28:36 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: HitmanNY
The Arab news showed people jumping.

And they laughed at it. The barbarians.

159 posted on 11/11/2004 3:30:14 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 156 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 81-100101-120121-140141-159 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson