The Falling Man. Do you remember this photograph? (The man who jumped from World Trade Towers)

esquire ^ | September 2003, Volume 140, | By Tom Junod

[southern cross forever]

Sorry , just kidding , I know it was in bad taste but i couldn't resist . My bad. I have a morbid sense of humor.

[mhking]

10.1

Bite me.

[jonalvy44]

where? I'd like to join you.

[MEG33]

I hit the abuse button.This was no place for cruel humor.

[68skylark]

What a horrible, ghoulish article.

[mikegi]

I suppose it's comforting to think the murdered people falling out of the buildings 'embraced' their fate and were ok with it. I have a feeling that's the exact opposite of their experience however.

Exactly. My guess, this silly article aside, is the people who "jumped" actually were overcome by heat and smoke or lost their grip from exhaustion. They probably had burns on their arms and legs. A horrific death. In the photos I've seen, people were hanging way outside the windows trying to escape from the fire and smoke.

[1Old Pro]

I'll never forget that horrible day. I'll never forgive the heathens like Hillary Clintoon and so many of her fellow democrats who want to politicize this tragedy to their favor.

[MHGinTN]

From the poignant article: But now the Falling Man is falling through more than the blank blue sky. He is falling through the vast spaces of memory and picking up speed. We the People remaining must NEVER allow this man to fall from our memory or the memory of our children and their children. Those hell-bent to create the same fate for all America may succeed if we allow this man and what was done to him and thousands more that day to fall from our memory. Already we've allowed the memory as certain reality of 42,000,000 plus fellow human beings slaughtered in willful abortion to be dulled from our consciousness. We must not allow this terrible evidence to also fall from our memory.

[conservativeammom]

Your comment is not appropriate or welcomed. This is not something that is to be made light of, or joked about.
You need to grow up!!!!

[southern cross forever]

touchy,touchy. sorry already!

[Revelation 911]

sick bastard

[Moose4]

Great form 10.1 , repeat performance please.

You, sir, are an idiot. If I open myself up to say much else, I'll get banned.

}:-)4

[LizardQueen]

This article pisses me off beyond words. They're talking about the artistic value of the photo, the composition, the alignment with the buildings. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, IT'S A PICTURE OF A MANS DEATH!!!!!! NOT AN ART SHOT!!!!!

And the unmitigated gall of the photogs to pass around pics of the falling man at funerals! I can't believe these pieces of horse dung would do such a thing, just to find out who the man was for their own disgusting and morbid curiousity!
These people are crap, pieces of shit, lowlifes of the worst order, lower than ambulance chasers and paparazzi, and not worthy of the electrons and/or paper that this dungheap article was printed with.

LQ

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Only the publication of the photographs of people jumping can serve the remind the nation of why we are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere.

[LizardQueen]

Ok, now that my rant is off my chest, I'd like to address the display/supression of the falling peoples pics:

I have mixed feelings. On one hand I don't think details should be published that could cause the families any more pain than they have already experiences. But we also have a duty not to forget those who jumped and the horror of that day.
Blurred jumpers I'm ok with publishing, detailed jumpers and hunting down the families of those who might have jumped I object to, vigorously.

LQ

[MEG33]

I hope your lesson in respect for victims of tragedy doesn't come the hard way.

[joesnuffy]

They were murdered....by Islam

[HenryLeeII]

At 8:46 tomorrow, I will be standing under an American Flag, burning a koran.

I'll be there in spirit! My American flag has been proudly flying every day since 9/11 on my front porch. The only time it will come down (in a few weeks) will be on Sundays when I will temporarily hang up my Redskins flag. In lieu of a koran, is burning magazine and newspaper photos of Beelzebubba and Hitlery an acceptable alternative?

[Bon mots]

I can't read it.
I can't stop thinking about this.

[Moose4]

This article has the typical smarmy, smarter-than-you Upper West Side mentality that pervades Esquire, but the author does get one thing right--this man, whoever he is, God rest his soul, does represent the Unknown Soldier in the war on Islamist terror. It is a good analogy because it reminds us that we are still at WAR with Islamists and their supporters.

I have no problem with blurring peoples' faces or hiding identities. But we must not let these pictures disappear. They must not be reduced to the level of appearing in "Faces of Death, Volume 25." The sheeple have to be reminded, solemnly and seriously, why we are at war, who we are at war with, and what we have to do to win the war.

Never forget.

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