Any person, any person who can ignore this thread and talk about the poor citizens of Afghanistan, who did absolutely nothing to prevent this attack, needs to move immediately to the Afghan state to share in their coming misery. God bless the USA...
We should be making MANY copies of pictures of these dear, precious American Citizens (and others) jumping, make MANY copies of pictures of Ground Zero, make MANY copies of pictures of the planes flying into the Towers, MANY copies of pictures of the Towers coming down, MANY copies of pictures of the Pentagon, and MANY copies of pictures of the Pennsylvania Field (with a caption "You failed your assigned mission on this one. Did your animals still get their 72 virgins,or they burning in HELL?" and drop the photos all over the caves we know about, the Taliban front lines, and what's left of the TERRORIST training camps.
GGGGGRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
It is easy to get lost in the numbers but we must remember that each of these people died a horrible individual death. Whether by jumping, by fire or by the grinding, crushing collapse of the building. Each incrimental death is horror magnified.
We would be justified in cutting a swath of death and destruction a hundred miles wide and a thousand miles long to get to the people who did this. Anything less is a tribute to our compassion, not an indication of our lack of resolve.
What are you, some kind of nut case that gets off on the numbers ?
The answer is TOO MANY. It was indeed tragic watching the news footage of these poor soals jumping ... leave it be.
This terrorist attack is really hitting close to home. Here are three stories from people we know!
(I edited out the first two storys and include the third story because it is relevant to this thread.-Tom)
It's late and as you can see, I've been through a lot. Please excuse the spelling.... This is the ----NOTE version: I am okay. I was in a meting on the 39th floor of the WTC1 at 8:30 on 9/11/01. The explosion hit and we ALL thought it was an earthquake.
Once it was established it was NOT an earthquake but some kind of explosion from above, we started to climb the stairs down... There was one man on the 30th floor in a wheel chair. An obese woman who couldn't walk and because of the smoke in the stairwell she had to stop and hold up traffic ... it was utterly chaotic, but immeasurably under control. No one panicked. NEVER did it get wild.... People took their time and worked together to help and assist one another... But obviously many perished... There were 1000 decisions I made, and many were counter to what should have been done.
The only reason I'm alive is because the lord told me and showed me how to get out. Seriously!!! I was going to stop on floor 20 and sit-it-out until the "smoke cleared" and get out later.... I decided not to and to stay in the flow and go to the bottom of the staircase, despite the smoke and burning eyes...
There was a man in a wheel chair who was stuck in the stairwell. He could neither go up, down or get back in to the area he came from. There was an enormously fat woman who could not breath and was stuck on the 25th floor wheezing out of control. I'm sure neither ever made it out of the building...
It was pretty bad..... I watched as one man and ten seconds later a woman jumped to their deaths from the 95th floor. I said out loud; "this is NOT entertainment!!!! I am not going to watch people jump to their deaths...."(My italics-Tom)
And walked away and headed to 34th street with a friend. I then found the trains were open to Conn. and took a train to ---in Greenwich.
I stayed the night, rented a car today, Wednesday and drove to see -----in Natick (his house) and home to Beverly to see --. I am very very lucky to be alive.
Many were not so lucky. I was only a step away at any one moment... Horrible. But I am alive.
Love to all - I'm just too exhausted to write any more. Love ---.
I know in my heart they are working agaist this nation(USA) Westin etc.If these pictures were of Afganistan we would see over and over.
I know in one way out respect this is not wholesome yet we must keep our focus and not let it get diluted. I wish we could shut down they avenues that try to shape our thinking-
Fox News Channel does more than most to give us the whole truth, but in many areas they lock step with the others. Only talk radio and the internet give us a choose to discern both sides.
The jumpers haunt me, but I also feel for the firemen, police and rescue workers who were there on that terrible day. I can't imagine the horror of what those brave souls had to deal with at Ground Zero. The images they saw on 9/11 are probably burned into their minds forever. Add to that the heartache of losing so many of their brothers. And after all that, they're supposed to sit quietly and nod their heads politely while Richard Gere lectures them on compassion and tolerance? Absurd!
