I have read every response and link up to this point. IMHO the +150- number would seem to be accurate, but it isn't the body count (jumpers or otherwise) that will be effective in counterpointing the liberalwhiners
- hell most people are already accustomed to the 5,000+ total dead and are desensitized to the concept.
It is the images of those trapped above the blaze that will remind them.
We should all consider that this Veteran's Day, November 11, 2001, is a Sunday and is two months to the day of this carnage.
We should use the opportunity to get out in the public with posters of these pictures, preferably at local VFW or sporting events and not let the sheep return to their slumber.
Just from watching the DVD "9/11" you realize that the number is well into the dozens, perhaps a couple of hundred all together.
On that DVD, shot by a french film duo documenting a NYFD recruits first year on the job, you hear the "crash!" of bodies hitting the atrium roof at least two dozen times alone. The CBS DVD on the attacks feature several eyewitness that escaped the tower, only to watch several people hitting the ground right in front of them.
The most heartbreaking to listen to is a man's description of watching a pregnant woman hit....I won't detail it any further than that. Horrific applies.....
It's not clear that all jumped to their deaths (though some clearly did - my brother was an eyewitness to a couple who held hands and jumped and seperated on their way down).
I think some (maybe most) who appear to have jumped blacked out from the intense heat and just fell out the windows.
We will never know, really.
NEVER FORGET.....
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.
Before or after the last stock market crash??
FR Post: The 9/11 victims America wants to forget: The 200 jumpers who flung themselves from the Twin Towers who have been 'airbrushed from history' (DailyMail.co.uk, by Tom Leonard)