How many jumped from the WTC towers?

[ErnBatavia]

The media has seemed to suppress this (how many poor souls that felt compelled to jump from the burning towers) for whatever reason.

I, for one, would like to be armed with some sort of number who leaped to their certain deaths. I have a feeling, due to the "Vietnamization" taking place now, that this tidbit of data might come in handy.......right about the time some clown gets my '5 across the lips'.

Anybody have an idea as to the numbers involved here? Thanks in advance.

[txdoda]

NEVER FORGET.....

[null and void]

Lazarus thread.

As you can see from my earlier response, it's as if no time has passed for some of us...

[Marysecretary]

I had heard recently that it was over 100. Can't prove it though.I will never forget the image of the mother holding her child. What horrible things must have been going through her mind.

[Modernman]

Damn. WTC pictures hit me every time.

If I'd left Jersey City to go to work 10 minutes earlier, I would have gotten to the WTC around the same time as the first plane hit.

[null and void]

The anger, hate and rage is returning, bigtime.

For me it never left.

But then again, I had A US born møøselimb co-worker who ojected to me putting a Flag and "God Bless America" in my cubicle on 9/12/01!!!

It brought the nature and extent of the problem into sharp focus...

[Marysecretary]

I see that picture in my mind, too. These pictures should be shown on television periodically and especially right before election day to let people know that they dare not forget.

[Lazamataz]

Later I read that if people are in a window and a fire approaches them they almost ALWAYS will opt to jump.

So great is the pain of burning that pilots in WWI would jump from burning biplanes. There were no parachutes back then.

[pushforbush]

a never forget bump

[Lazamataz]

But then again, I had A US born møøselimb co-worker who ojected to me putting a Flag and "God Bless America" in my cubicle on 9/12/01!!!

Did he also object to losing all his teeth, once they finally pulled you off him?

[PISANO]

I saw a special about 911 a few years ago. There was a noise in the backround that sounded like periodic crashing, which I thought was falling debris. Later in the movie a Firechief beinging interviewed said that he found out later that those were the jumpers. I recorded this program and without gong back and watching the 2 hours, I can safely say there were more than a DOZEN jumpers.

[7.62 x 51mm]

"For me it never left."

Mine has been with me since that day too; it's been all I can do to keep it and tears, in check.

[NRA2BFree]

Never forget

The horror of that attack is burned in my mind. I will never forget.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Thanks, pc.

[Leroy S. Mort]

[wtc911]

I was in and out of the Trade Center literally hundreds of times throughout the 80s, 90s and '00-'01, including when the Feb.'93 bomb went off. I have no recollection at all of a Day Care facility, nor do I recall ever seeing people with young kids headed toward one.

As for the number of jumpers, I'd quess over 100 based on friends and family who were eye witnesses. There were people jumping or falling from number one even before number two was hit and both buildings stood burning for an hour or so after that.

I can tell you this, in 36 hours of working the line and digging inside the pit on the 12th and 13th neither I nor my oldest son who was with me saw anything left but ash...nothing (with one grisly exception) that was recognizable as human remains.

[null and void]

I'm more *subtle* than that...

[null and void]

I couldn't cry for over six months. It was a very painful time...

[creepycrawly]

If you were there, would you be counting as people jumped, or would you turn away in horror?

I was there and I couldn't believe how many people were just standing there watching. Once I figured out what was happening, I rushed down Fulton.

If people are so hungry to see the pictures, I'm sure they can find them on the Web.

[creepycrawly]

There had to be day care centers in the WTC

If there were day care centers in the WTC they would have been on the ground floor.

[Clara Lou]

my brother was an eyewitness to a couple who held hands and jumped and seperated on their way down
That is just so touching. [That sounds so trite, but words fail me.] It's sad, too, to think of them trying to give each other courage but then to be separated.