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The 9/11 victims America wants to forget: The 200 jumpers who flung themselves from the Twin Towers
Daily Mail ^ | 9/9/11 | Tom Leonard

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911jumpers; america; fallingman; islam; religionbashing; respectdannyh; tenthanniversary911; victims; wants
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"To even say something like "whether it was suicide or not doesn't matter" is idiocy."

Perhaps I should have stated it another way as to not offend your delicate sensibilities concerning the subject.

What I meant to say is the question of whether it was suicide or not should not even enter the discussion. Of course if you want to act the jackass over semantics, be my guest.

241 posted on 09/10/2011 10:48:40 AM PDT by semaj
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To: ken5050
Happy Birthday Ken!
242 posted on 09/10/2011 11:16:07 AM PDT by Guenevere (....)
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To: samtheman

I was flipping around the news channels and CNN had interviews with people about 9/11 so I watched for a few minutes..till they interviewed that wacko Cindy Sheehan. Why Cindy Sheehan? She was not a survivor nor did she lose a family member in the attacks. No other mother of a fallen soldier, airman or marine in the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was interviewed, just her. She blathered for a few minutes how her son Casey tried to refuse the order that ended in his death, which was a proven lie, and one that she only began spouting years after her son’s death. She then babbled on about how she knew 9/11 would change America..oh what a prescient genius. She sounded and looked like a goofy moron. God forgive me, I DESPISE CNN and all the leftist news media.


243 posted on 09/10/2011 12:45:41 PM PDT by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: ariamne

I puke on CNN.

I puke on Cindy Sheehan.


244 posted on 09/10/2011 12:51:19 PM PDT by samtheman (Palin. In your heart you know she's right.)
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To: samtheman

She looks like you already did. And I spit on CNN—sneaking in an American hating, 9/11 truther like Cindy Sheehan and presenting her as a credible commentator on 9/11 was insulting to the victims and their families. And frankly to anyone watching.


245 posted on 09/10/2011 2:17:36 PM PDT by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: takenoprisoner

I’m glad to have made your morning! Keep me in mind on your ping lists. I have a feeling we are very similar in sentiment.


246 posted on 09/10/2011 3:11:43 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: Nachum

bookmark


247 posted on 09/10/2011 4:12:01 PM PDT by manic4organic (We won. Get over it.)
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To: momtothree

Again, I apologize. I understand. Thank you.


248 posted on 09/10/2011 4:57:03 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Travis McGee

A picture is truly worth a thousand words.


249 posted on 09/11/2011 2:32:21 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Huck

Personally, I’d like to spend the weekend watching breaking news stories about mushroom clouds spotted over Mecca, Riyad, Peshawar, Kabul, Tehran, Cairo, Tripoli and any of the other Muslim stronghold cities.

We are going to end up in a global conflagration with Muslims at some point in the future anyway.


250 posted on 09/11/2011 2:41:25 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: momtothree

It’s so easy when writing emotionally to make a mistake or to be unclear. I’ve done it many times myself so I completely understand.

Sadly, I think those who jumped had terrible deaths. I remember Guiliani’s statement that he saw the air turn pink. They have never shown the photos of the body parts shattered on the streets of Manhattan. The writer Pete Hamill who was on Vesey Street at the time saw shoes surrounded by pools of blood.

I’m not writing this to be cruel - please understand. I just want everyone to know what those animals did to our fellow citizens.

Never forget, never forgive.


251 posted on 09/11/2011 6:31:28 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Run, Sarah, Run! Please!)
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To: Gaffer
I hear ya. Maybe it's me, but there's something a little masochistic about our focus on the victims, and on that day, and remembering the tragedy.

I know, we all want to respect and honor the dead. But I think it'd be better if on September 11 we celebrated everything we've accomplished against our enemies since that day.

It would have been nice if we could have had the new building done in ten years, too, when it took one year to build the Empire State Building.

There's just something about everyone blubbering and crying that rubs me wrong. I refuse to wallow in it.

252 posted on 09/11/2011 8:04:27 AM PDT by Huck (If you are in a union, then bow to your COMMIE masters.)
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To: samtheman
I p... on CNN.

I p... on Cindy Sheehan.

Guess the word. It rhymes with hiss.

253 posted on 09/11/2011 8:06:42 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Huck
It would have been nice if we could have had the new building done in ten years, too, when it took one year to build the Empire State Building

Frankly, had the local will (I believe the National will was there) been there, both towers could have been replaced in much less time. I believe too much credence and liberal victim deference was attached to the whole 'rebuilding' effort and it delayed, delayed, delayed - all due to bickering amongst themselves and with government.

The victims here were not just surviving families, who by the way were extravagantly compensated unlike any disaster victims heretofore, but these entire United States. We, the air traveler, the bus traveler and any other public participant are subjected to the vestiges of this terrorist act. The victims do not have the franchise on bereavement - we (collectively) are suffering, too. DHS, TSA have determined WE are the enemy and we are paying for it with our freedom.

So, in summation, I don't want to pray, I don't want to reflect on how America caused this, and I don't want heap further commiseration on the victims' families. I WANNA NUKE SOMEBODY....

254 posted on 09/11/2011 8:18:55 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: All

My only problem with todays remembrance is that there is not enough anger and revenge being shown. Yea , that’s right I said it . I’d love to see someone get up there and say the Islamic scumbags are still in this country and they need to be warned. Never happen I guess. I saw the attack live in front of me from a rooftop right across the river . I KNOW how it felt to watch all those people die
AND I KNOW WHO DID IT TOO..THAT IS WHAT I WONT FORGET !


255 posted on 09/11/2011 8:27:12 AM PDT by sonic109 (no compromise with Marxist)
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To: stilloftyhenight
"To the Brits I would say kudos, but it isn’t the Americans who have forgotten, it is the leadership and media."

Exactly. We had (expletive deleted) BASTARDS in positions of leadership and critical decision making who put procedures into place that caused the failures that led to 9/11. And now, once again, we have (double triple raging expletive deleted) BASTARDS in power again who have the same mindset as those who were responsible for 9/11.

And I'm not even going to describe my feelings for the voters who PUT THESE BASTARDS in power!

256 posted on 09/11/2011 8:27:28 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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I had a dream last night.

In the dream I was sleeping. Everything including me was dark.
There was a man standing in a window above me. I couldn't see who it was, and there was very bright light shining behind him.
He gave me a rose.
257 posted on 09/11/2011 8:29:26 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: Gaffer

I’m with you.


258 posted on 09/11/2011 8:32:52 AM PDT by Huck (If you are in a union, then bow to your COMMIE masters.)
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To: Grumplestiltskin
"The Christian West will have to resort to violence, even barbarity, that eclipses almost anything humanity has ever known."

Obama and the water carrying boot licking butt boys in the MSM will do all they can to make sure that people will not be appointed as military leaders who will do as you have posted.

"But could Christianity — the tolerant creed that “turns the other cheek” in an effort to “forgive our enemies” — also become the force that stays our hand and causes the loss of that very civilization?"

Sadly, yes.

259 posted on 09/11/2011 8:34:57 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Spktyr
"Immediately before He left us, he demanded that those who followed him arm themselves - not for revenge, marauding or banditry, but to defend themselves against those who would harm them."

Jesus would have been a poor messiah indeed had his attitude been that he was here to spread the news of salvation to all the Earth, but if his followers were murdered before they got a chance to help spread that news, well that would have been ok since they didn't engage in violence. I mean think about it, if his followers would not defend themselves against evil, then how could they have spread his teachings? And if they could not have spread his teachings, they would have failed HIM, and they would have failed those who could have learned his message!

CHRISTIANS need not back down from murderers nor do they need to apologize if they use violence to obliterate and annihilate them!

260 posted on 09/11/2011 8:52:11 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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