This isn't right. The horror is the reason we need to remember.
I believe they had no choice. Regardless, one cannot fault them for they could not have expected jihadists to slit the throats of stewards, stewardesses, passengers and pilots so they could attack the World Trade Center.
I don't know if the victims families know and it is kept private (as it should be)...I just know I won't forget the atrocity visited on these innocents.May God rest their souls and comfort those who mourn.
It was an inferno inside those towers, Instinct took over and it was either be burned alive or jump.
A friend's husband was at WTC #7 that day. A body that hits concrete that hard, splatters. He recalls having to step over body parts and gore while getting away.
Never again
This is based on a small knowledge of the physical situation (the WTC towers were like a stack of bicycle wheels, with steel beams for spokes, and the floors held up by those beams) and the effort to answer this question: what would motivate me to jump into freefall, when I don't believe in suicide?
(steely)
Seeing is believing........and not seeing, one can only wonder. If all the photos were put to the public, then we would REALLY be damn mad!
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.
I tend to think that most of these murder victims did not make a conscious decision about jumping.
When you put your hand on a hot surface, you instantly pull it back.
It doesn't matter who they were. They were seen, and everyone knows why they jumped or fell.
And later, how many PROMINANT Democrats quietly spoke, "I'm glad Algore did not win".
I'll say this about it. I've been burned pretty bad a couple of times in my life. If I had to make the choice between burning alive and jumping, I'd jump.
On a totally separate subject, does anyone know of DVD sets of the 2001 mass murder that collects images of the event and subsequent rescue and cleanup activities, as well as the reaction of the tens of thousands of people in New York at the time? Also the Pentagon part of the day and the heroes who crashed in Pennsylvania?
Does anyone have those pictures of the people jumping? Please post them if you do. Thanks.
A good friend of mine who lives on Pearl St., a few blocks from the Towers said the biggest mistake he ever made in his life was looking through binoculars...seeing their faces.
To Hell with Osama and his ghouls.
Whoever doesn't understand this is a truly lost soul.
May they rest in peace. Good post Maria, it reminds us of the real horror of that day. We will never forget, their deaths will not be in vain.
This is the photo that makes it come home to me. (Look carefully at the bottom photo to find the victim.)
As for why more from 1WTC...it was hit first and fell second so it burned longer, there were more people there to begin with, 2WTC had unblocked stairways down which people fled...1WTC did not. (that is how they were known pre-9.11, not north or south, 1 and 2.
I think perhaps, that some may have decided that they would decide when and how to die. To take some power back.
I dont know. It is indeed the most horrible thing to watch. I choose to think of it as a way that they took control as best they could. And I fill with fury once again that we make sure that no one will every have to make that kind of choice again.
What does it matter and why would anyone with any respect for such a tragedy pose such a question?
What's next, who screamed and why?
Did the woman try to maintain a modicom of mosdesty and hold their skirts down while plunging to their certain death?
This is asinine IMHO.