What it was like to jump from the World Trade Center on 09-11-01

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[vannrox]

What it was like to jump from
the World Trade Center
(on 09-11-01)

View from the Open Promenade

View from the Observatory

Inside the Observatory.

On the top. Imagine trying to be rescued by "chopper.

Its windy up top.

This is a view from the top.

A view looking at the tower next door.

A view towards the river.

On the top.

View UP UP UP.

Photo, from World Trade Center observation deck, looking north to midtown Manhattan.

Photo, from World Trade Center observation deck, looking east to the Brooklyn Bridge and beyond

[jon1972]

"I just can't imagine jumping out of the window. I just couldn't bring myself to give up so completely".... When your standig in a window tortured by hot flames and unspeakable pain, you certainly have to get used to the idea of jumping

[messenger4]

Incredible Pictures. Just doing some searches today and came across this thread. Thank you.

[CyberAnt]

Then I guess you didn't go to see the movie Pearl Harbor?? Or, was that too morbid for you.

[Amelia]

Disregard the people who are against your posting this. No one made them open it and read it. They obviously read it because the headline grabbed their attention and they read it out of "morbid' curiosity.

Actually, I was hoping against hope that there was actually someone I hadn't heard about who'd lived to tell the story.

I think the thread is tacky beyond belief.

[excelsior]

It is good to revive a thread like this, at a time when bleeding-hearts are worrying if the Al Queda terrorists in Cuba are being treated properly, and when that lily-livered Colin Powell is asking for the Geneva Convention Rules to be applied to coldblooded murdering scum.

[zeaal]

There is a book that was recently released titled: "911: Terror in America" that may have details other sources are not publishing.

The author was recently on TV and this is how I learned of the book. Bill Bresnahan is the author. He is a retired SWAT team member. He arrived shortly after the collapse and gives accounts of the rescue and recovery efforts. Some of what he recounted on the show is chilling and truly needs to be told.

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I am not associated with this publisher and have no interest in the book. Merely sending along the informatin.

[DreamWeaver]

No, I don't think your trying to be morbid. We are continually shown pics of the Holocaust for the sole purpose to NEVER FORGET so IMO this too needs to be reinforced in American's minds.

Judging by our track record, Americans have been known to have a short memory. That just may be what SOME of our foes are counting on. So, no, this is not in bad taste IMO.

[zeaal]

Sorry, bad link in prior posting.

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Just in case it does not work this time ... http://www.republicbooks.com

[GOPJ]

You have a point:

It is time America understood that keeping these painful images at the forefront is not about p##ing on your cornflakes, it is about facing the truth and dealing with it for all time. Your own life is at stake.

[GOPJ]

You have a point:

It is time America understood that keeping these painful images at the forefront is not about p##ing on your cornflakes, it is about facing the truth and dealing with it for all time. Your own life is at stake.

[sheik yerbouty]

The Latino stations were far more detailed, and felt that their viewers needed the whole truth as to the details of this barbarous jihadist attack on America.

[Orion78]

NEVER FORGET!

[a_witness]

This thread reminds us of the moral foundation for font color=maroon>Infinite Justice. We must utterly destroy all the Islamic terrorists and their supporters.

[a_witness]

This thread reminds us of the moral foundation for Infinite Justice. We must utterly destroy all the Islamic terrorists and their supporters.

[f.Christian]

America will win--succeed...liberalism will die!

These Americans were victims of tyranny-terror-evil...

The bridge(Clinton) of terror(reno)... Beast Train---Evil/liberalism will fail---destroy themselves!

[Senator Pardek]

NEVER FORGET!

[aruanan]

Oh really. And why do you want to censor pictures from the top of the World Trade Center?

Well, look at the login name "SunnyUSA", aka Pollyanna.

[Senator Pardek]

Thanks for the link to the Triangle Factory fire -

As I looked up I saw a love affair in the midst of all the horror. A young man helped a girl to the window sill. Then he held her out, deliberately away from the building and let her drop. He seemed cool and calculating. He held out a second girl the same way and let her drop. Then he held out a third girl who did not resist. I noticed that. They were as unresisting as if her were helping them onto a streetcar instead of into eternity. Undoubtedly he saw that a terrible death awaited them in the flames, and his was only a terrible chivalry.

Then came the love amid the flames. He brought another girl to the window. Those of us who were looking saw her put her arms about him and kiss him. Then he held her out into space and dropped her. But quick as a flash he was on the window sill himself. His coat fluttered upward—the air filled his trouser legs. I could see that he wore tan shoes and hose. His hat remained on his head.

Thud—dead, thud—dead—together they went into eternity. I saw his face before they covered it. You could see in it that he was a real man. He had done his best.

We found out later that, in the room in which he stood, many girls were being burned to death by the flames and were screaming in an inferno of flame and heat. He chose the easiest way and was brave enough to even help the girl he loved to a quicker death, after she had given him a goodbye kiss. He leaped with an energy as if to arrive first in that mysterious land of eternity, but her thud—dead came first.

That gives an explanation as to why folks jumped from the Twin Towers.

[PJ-Comix]

Every time I hear the Liberal News rant about the poor starving Taliban children I just think about what it must of been like to fall from one of these towers.

This also came to mind when that idiot, Patrick Leahy, was screeching about how the terrorists' rights were being violated because we planned a military tribunal for them. BTW, I noticed that Leahy has kept his mouth shut tight about this objection ever since it first went over like a lead balloon.

[sinkspur]

That gives an explanation as to why folks jumped from the Twin Towers.

The horror of dying in flames or diving 100 stories to certain death will not face us.

Those who were forced to make such a terrible decision must be avenged.

Lots of blood left to shed.