“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.
I’m with you, I never heard it in 10 years, I never thought it, and none in my family would dream of such a thing. We lost a relative, she worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, floor 105, Tower One. 30 years old about to be married. No remains ever recovered.
Due to her location she could have been a jumper. Her poor parents will never know if she burned to death, jumped, or maybe was overcome by smoke. No last cell call from her.
I spit on these smug British theorists who insult her memory and that of all the others with their smears on our American religious (which means “backwards and ignorant”) attitudes and their insidious projections of their own cowardice.