[Monty22]

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.

[bedolido]

amazing! thanks for the thought provoking words.

[Cindy]

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: "ATTACK ON AMERICA!" (Updated Daily)
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html

[ambrose]

bump

[.38sw]

Yes, I remember that photo. It was published in our paper. These photos should be published. We should know the horrors that people suffered that day. Instead, we get sanitized reporting. People jumped to escape the heat and smoke and fire. They jumped to certain death.

[Maria S]

I have a great fear of heights; jumping out of one of those buildings from the height that those poor people did...my worst nightmare, literally! They must have been terrified out of their minds.

[End Times Sentinel]

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

 

 

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[alnitak]

They were called "jumpers" or "the jumpers," as though they represented a new lemminglike class.

I don't like this article. I couldn't read to the end. I found its tone patronising, and a little "odd". I'm not saying it's warped, but it's definitely "confused". Just what is the author trying to say with all those words?

I found the suggestion that Americans have chosen to forget or ignore the tragedy insulting, especially to the souls of those who lost their lives. I suspect the author is projecting his liberal sensibilities - I very much doubt that anyone on this forum has forgotten what happened, or wishes to forget. I for one (and I am not an American, so I experienced Sep 11 at some remove, though it still affected me deeply) never wish to forget. I want it to remain seared in my brain for the rest of my life BECAUSE it was the most terrible thing that has happened in my lifetime, and it is only through remembering the terror, and understanding the magnitude of this act, that we can draw the strength for the fight that lies ahead. Unfortunately, I think there are still too many people in the West who do want to forget, to turn the other cheek, to ignore attacks upon us - or to cower in the corner in the hope that the war will pass them by.

[boxerblues]

bttt for later

[Alouette]

Indeed, Tumbling Woman was perhaps the redemptive image of 9/11

It was pornographic trash. I stopped reading here.

[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.

[68skylark]

What a horrible, ghoulish article.

[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.

[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.

[joesnuffy]

They were murdered....by Islam

[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.

}:-)4

[Diogenesis]

[kdmhcdcfld]

To me, the man in this picture will always be the epitomy of those who died in this manner on that day. For the last two years, I've often wondered...

Who is he?

Did his family see this picture and recognize that this is my son, brother, husband, father?

Were his last thoughts of loved ones being left behind?

Did he accept that this was his fate?

Answers we will never know...