Posted on 09/11/2020 9:03:12 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
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Then he heard people gasping. People on the ground were gasping because people in the building were jumping. He started shooting pictures through a 200mm lens. He was standing between a cop and an emergency technician, and each time one of them cried, "There goes another," his camera found a falling body and followed it down for a nine- or twelve-shot sequence. He shot ten or fifteen of them before he heard the rumbling of the South Tower and witnessed, through the winnowing exclusivity of his lens, its collapse. He was engulfed in a mobile ruin, but he grabbed a mask from an ambulance and photographed the top of the North Tower "exploding like a mushroom" and raining debris. He discovered that there is such a thing as being too close, and, deciding that he had fulfilled his professional obligations, Richard Drew joined the throng of ashen humanity heading north, walking until he reached his office at Rockefeller Center.
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To this day, what happened on that day still fills me with rage.
I don’t have any regrets about going over to Afghanistan and Iraq and taking care of business.
Much discord over what followed, but I was alive at that time and don’t forget it, even if some people have.
Yes, I remember, and I shall never forget the horror of that day. Imagine the Hell he must have seen and heard in order to make jumping out of a skyscraper the better choice.
The appropriate response should have been thermonuclear dawn over every Islamic capitol on September 12th.
I remember the photos of all those frantic people hanging out of the windows above the fire and praying they were rescued but then realized virtually everyone of them was compelled to jump. It enrages me to this day especially when the anniversary of 9/11 rolls around. Another date that will live in infamy.
i remember seeing an video on the people who chose to jump from the Towers- it was horrific. Evidently the fall took almost 10 seconds and the people were conscience the whole way down.
The worst part of 911 for me is realizing today that our nation changed, for the worse. Perhaps it didn’t change, but since 911 we’ve seen that our greatest enemy of freedom is from within the country. And after 911, Clinton and Obama made sure to bring in as many America haters as possible.
I only regret that we had no modern William T. Sherman to lead the effort.
I posted this image on my Facebook page 9/11/2018.
Yesterday Facebook ‘covered’ it as they considered it offensive.
Looking forward to a post racial, post Facebook world.
“The appropriate response should have been thermonuclear dawn over every Islamic capitol on September 12th.”
I agree. 2 or 3 nukes lit off over a couple choice sites. Mecca, Sadams’Palace, Iran’s Parliament.
Would have saved us a lot of grief and dead and trillions.
The choice was being burned alive or jumping.
Hey, the Dems set a new course record for themselves - feigning patriotism for almost two full weeks in the aftermath.
Barack Hussein: “My Muslim Faith”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw
Never forgive, never forget. The muslims owe us big time for that.
“I only regret that we had no modern William T. Sherman to lead the effort.”
Or Patton.
Facebook’s action is offensive to me.
Sometimes, the TRUTH hurts. But, it’s still TRUTH.
It IS offensive. Truth hurts, as we said on the playground. And yet - if you hide the truth and only put out Fairy Tales, life is NOT a fairy tale, and believing it to be so does not make it so.
Shame on FB for covering it up. Shame on them, Shame on them. They killed the prophets, right?
Agreed.
From Algiers to Jakarta.
From Ankara to Mogadishu.
Sent to Hell to be with Mohamed. (Piss Be Upon Him)
Before the second tower fell, there was a news camera in the lobby with the firemen who were in the process of climbing the stairs. I kept hearing an occasional “whap” then realized it was the sound of bodies striking the sidewalk and lobby roof. Absolutely horrifying! That and the images of the jumpers will always haunt me.
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