This article is the first time I’ve ever read anything about how supposedly people view those who jumped as cowardly or that there is some religious reason to ignore what happened to them. I have never in the last 10 years heard that opinion expressed at all.
If there hasn’t been as much focus on these pour souls it’s because it so incredibly horrifying and I don’t think any one of us can help wondering, if just for a minute, what it must have been like, to be where they were, unable to go up or down, no way to escape except out, through the window. And I think it’s possible that maybe there’s one small part of you that hopes you could somehow survive it, to have that one last ridiculous hope and no time, no choices, it’s horrifying even now to think about how they must have felt in those last few seconds.
Americans make no attempt to “forget” any of the victims of the murderous attack perpetuated upon our nation on 09/11/2001.
Some of those people trapped in burning buildings facing imminent tortuous death by fire, with no possible escape. They managed to exert a small level of control over the nature of certain death.They were not suicides.
The people on Flight 93 also faced certain death. Some of them managed to exert some level of controll, and saved unknown numbers of others by directing the manner of thier death to thwart the goals of their murderers. They were not suicidal.
I’ve already cried today and it’s not even Sunday yet. I’m going to have to limit what I listen to/read this weekend.
However I did read this article and it makes me EXTREMELY angry... the people who either jumped or fell or were pushed from the towers don’t deserve any speculation or judgement from anyone... especially in the form of an article originating from Muslim-invaded Britain.
God bless our country and our troops.
I read a long account of the “jumpers” years ago. After analysis of footage and photographs, the conclusion about some (not all) was not that they jumped, but they literally fell out of the building, not knowing where they were until they were on their way down. People above the impact points made their way down and got stuck between the floors at the impact. Blinded and choking from smoke, looking to escape the heat, they were seeking clear air and stumbled out.
the most troubling was a first responder who saw a very pregnant woman hit right next to the sculpture between the towers and saw the baby pop out.
I only heard the description, but I can't imagine what it was like to actually see such a thing.
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‘The 200 jumpers who flung themselves from the Twin Towers who have been ‘airbrushed from history’ “
They are the ones I remember the most. Them and the one poor woman who took months to die from her burns.
If there was one thing to turn me Atheist, this would be it. God was definitely sitting on his hands that day. Some savior.
I never heard that the figure was 200.
I had no idea that there were so many! May God hold them in the palm of his hand! OMG!
This author only proves one thing. Even the bottom is infinite. He’s beneath contempt. I have more respect for a earthworm.
I am glad they are being remembered, I just wish the media would be more dignified.
Those skid marks on Journalism's shorts who call themselves "reporters" and "journalists" did it.
I don’t consider the people that chose to jump as committing suicide. They would have surely died anyway, and they knew it. Not to mention, avoiding a fire/smoke will make people ‘do things’.
The analysis presented in this article is simply moronic. However it is interesting to see the simple-minded stereotypes that some Europeans apply to America.
Thankyou, Nachum. To the Brits I would say kudos, but it isn’t the Americans who have forgotten, it is the leadership and media.
The rest of us have it seared into our brains.
Despite the hideous PC services and pomp, we remember.
Fly your flags in remembrance, America. God bless the USA.
We don’t want to forget exactly, we just cannot discuss the horror of seeing those who felt compelled to jump. Many of us of forgotten NOTHING about that day.
The Brits should keep their opinions to themselves.
I posted a lot of graphic first hand accounts of the jumpers here that I found on the web, stories I can no longer find.
My 9-11 VHS (my tape I filmed channel surfing that day)clearly showed one person at a window in the first tower hit, being sucked out and falling from the massive vacuum created by the fireball of the second plane.
This one person didn’t jump. I’ve never heard it discussed or documented anywhere.
This video is from 2007 and poor quality, but if you are not afraid it is a good overview of those who had to jump.. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=df4_1189498628