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.
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What would you do?
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I guess some folks would prefer to melt than crunch.../s
What an inane argument...
Bears! lol
I need a nap.
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.
We sure do. That's why it was especially pleasing to have the Healing Field just a stone's throw from campus!
"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!
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.
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
Not just graphic, it is a cheap trap for gawkers. Lots of sex links, right below the tragic pictures.
>>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?
my dad had a special LIFE coffee table book
We had that book also. I looked through it many times.
Dont tell me that //please dont tell me that
The authors are ghouls.
Simple: you saw it; others didn't.
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.'
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?
I don't know which I would choose if faced with that decision.
And they laughed at it. The barbarians.
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