Posted on 09/09/2011 6:26:42 PM PDT by Nachum
Almost all of them jumped alone, although eyewitnesses talked of a couple who held hands as they fell. One woman, in a final act of modesty, appeared to be holding down her skirt. Others tried to make parachutes out of curtains or tablecloths, only to have them wrenched from their grip by the force of their descent. The fall was said to take about ten seconds. It would vary according to the body position and how long it took to reach terminal velocity — around 125mph in most cases, but if someone fell head down with their body straight, as
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Did they worry that they wouldn’t go to heaven since it was a suicide?
Suicide? Are you drunk or smoking something?
I didn’t structure the sentence correctly and for that I apologize.
I apologize to you for my post —# 21.
They can try to airbrush all they want, they can’t destroy the truth. All their pathetic attempts at appeasement will backfire. I will NEVER forget those images, watching innocent people die is something that can’t be unseen.
“Intense religious fervor”? Not where I live.
These apparently a-religious Brits seem to think we’re so medieval - and apparently using such hyperbole, about on par with the jackasses of the Religion of Cruelty.
“But there are other, more complicated, reasons. In the aftermath of this attack on America’s sovereign territory — a period of intense patriotism — some considered that to choose to die rather than be killed showed a lack of courage.”
I’ve never heard that.
It’s amazing how many Freepers make an effort to take offense as an opportunity to bash other Freepers. Venomous jerks is what they are, more the DU type than our type. It’s clear you meant nothing derogatory. Some people are just hyenas.
When KSM meets his end; he should have to choose: the flames or the fall. Nothing else will do.
BTW, wouldn’t it have been a desperate hope that they would survive instead of burn/choke?
Hi gal - I think the ghouls are out tonight and it’s not even Halloween. Your post wasn’t hard to understand at all. How many of us didn’t have emotions that day and since that we aren’t able to articulate to suit all people?
I didn’t structure the sentence well AT ALL! I meant for it to read that so many horrible thoughts had to be going on in their mind before jumping. Thoughts about everything.. family, friends, loved ones, God, Heaven, leaving a life... just coming into their brain at once. I fully understand them jumping... I would have done it myself if I was placed in the same situation.
I had no problem understanding what you meant. Some are looking for an excuse to find something wrong in what you posted.
We really do have a small contingent of Freepers who aren’t quite right. They go after fellow Freepers in a manner unbecoming.
And I truly believe that this author doesn’t understand at all what was happening here after the attacks. It is my firm belief that the media didn’t focus alot of attention on the jumpers because they KNEW that if we, as patriotic americans saw that carnage hour after hour that there wouldn’t be one mosque standing within the week and there would be a war against muslims on every street corner. remember president bush already thought that it was a real possibility at the time and the politicians and media types really beat the “it was only extreme islam” who did this and not the “good” muslims drum pretty hard.
Intense religious fervor?
Right. There is so much religious fervor that the clergy and any prayer has been banned at the memorial ceremony.
Imagine, no mention of God at a memorial ceremony.
Bloomberg and Obama. No wonder.
Exactly. Suicide is a choice, what choice did these victims have? Of course the article nothing absurd from the beginning. No one wants to forget ANY of the victims of 9-11.
One of the accounts that I found most haunting was from a doctor who was at the scene. I have looked for it since then, but have been unable to find it, so I am going off of memory. One woman who jumped was still alive when she landed, and she told the doctor that she had made it, and was smiling. The doctor reassured her, knowing that she was moments from death, her body broken. The doctor didn’t elaborate more than that, other than to say that her injuries were well beyond repair, but for some reason that account captured the futility of both the people that were trapped in the building, and the futility of those trying to save them.
I don’t know what I would do, but I have a horrible fear of burns. It’s not a choice anyone wants to make.
“”I would have done it myself if I was placed in the same situation.””
As would I.....Lost a mother-in-law in a house fire and it was too horrible to even imagine what she went through...
Btt
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