[TonyInOhio]

Never Forget.

Tony

[bayareablues]

I'm glad they published this. NEVER FORGET.

[jjm2111]

And the libs wonder why we fight?

So sad. Words cannot describe it.

[SouthernFreebird]

......at a loss for words

[Bedford Forrest]

NEVER FORGET.

[KSCITYBOY]

When the left says we need to move on they should be forced to watch video of these poor souls falling to their deaths. There is no moving on until all of those responsible are dead. Radical Islam must be destroyed.

[lsee]

Heartbreaking.

[seeker41]

I'm glad this was written, but it makes the rage swell in my throat. Horrific beyond belief! I want the blood of as many "those people" as is possible.

[I still care]

Kudos to USA Today. An disturbing but necessary story. I abhore the sanitized whitewash that is going on in the media now. We need to remember - really remember.

Never forget.

[thinktwice]

What I will never forget, is that religious nuts did this.

Mad dog, man hating, religious nuts!

[Mr. Bird]

Thank you for posting this. I read the story on my way to work this morning, and I was filled with such a horrible sadness, followed by solemn rage.

USA Today seems to be the only print media outlet willing to take off the gloves and show 9/11 for what it was. They have yet to declare the true identity of our enemy (Radical Islam), but they may come around yet. The American public need the stories, images, and aftermath to be explained over and over, so when we start shedding others' blood, there will be no blind dissent.

[Revelation 911]

Jesus come quickly

[Long Cut]

Every time I come across the famous "jumper photos", my heart sinks. Then I think, "Those are AMERICANS! MURDERED!" My blood boils with white-hot rage whenever I see or hear about it. Those photos and videos should have been shown repeatedly to the country and the world, to keep the rage well-tended.

There's been speculation that the country is losing its way on the war...people are actually questioning whether it should even be fought. They should be handed those photos, and told to shut up. ANYONE who cannot feel righteous anger and rage upon seeing those pictures has no right to be called "American", or possibly even "Human".

Screw the peaceniks - whether on the right OR left. We have a war to win, and we must do so by ANY means necessary. The animals who performed, planned, and supported this atrocity deserve absolutely ZERO mercy. And no, their countries do not deserve to continue existing, either. They have forever discarded that right.

IMHO.

[Dialup Llama]

Pearl Harbor made an entire generation despise the Japanese. The muslims have not even begun to comprehend the negative impact this will have on them. A bit of Suadi PR nor the CAIR PC double talk is not going to 'fix' it.

[technochick99]

For those who jumped, the fall lasted 10 seconds. They struck the ground at just less than 150 miles per hour — not fast enough to cause unconsciousness while falling, but fast enough to ensure instant death on impact. People jumped from all four sides of the north tower. They jumped alone, in pairs and in groups.

I've always wondered about that... Are you really unconscious when you land?? I did a tandem jump with 60 seconds of free fall, and the instructor estimated we were going about 100 miles an hour. I don't know, all I felt was sheer terror in every cell.

Yet I've read that usually the poisonous fumes in the smoke will kill someone quite quickly. I don't know what I would do, stay and die, or jump and die. My only hope would be that I had enough time to make my peace before death.

And I do hope that the 'martyrs' truly got what they deserved in their afterlife.

[Bryan]

Our Generation's
Pearl Harbor

NASA satellite photo of the smoke plume arising from the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

From the Associated Press:
Grand total 266 dead on the aircraft.

–American Airlines Flight 11: A Boeing 767 en route from Boston to Los Angeles. The plane was carrying 81 passengers, nine flight attendants and two pilots. This plane took off from Boston at 7:59 AM and crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8:45 AM.

–United Airlines Flight 175: A Boeing 767. The flight was bound from Boston to Los Angeles. It was carrying 56 passengers, two pilots and seven flight attendants. This plane took off at 8:14 AM and crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center at 9:03 AM.

–American Airlines Flight 77: A Boeing 757 en route from Dulles Airport near Washington to Los Angeles. The plane was carrying 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots. This plane crashed into the Pentagon at 9:40 AM.

–At 9:50 AM the south tower (Two World Trade Center) collapsed.

–United Airlines Flight 93: A Boeing 757, crashed southeast of Pittsburgh while en route from Newark, N.J. to San Francisco at 10:00 AM. The plane was carrying 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants.

–At 10:29 AM the north tower (One World Trade Center) collapsed.

–At 5:25 PM Seven World Trade Center collapsed.

Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER forget.

[segis]

I was across the street from WTC that day. What I saw that day still haunts me - I have never witnessed anything so horrifying as what I saw that day. I still have nightmares about this a year later. Reading this brings the day back in focus and my eyes are tearing. If my finger was on the button, Afghanistan and whichever country involved in this would be a lake by now.

May we never, ever forget.

[Lee'sGhost]

It's worth mentioning that, if you go to the website there is a picture . . . but proceed cautiously -- I wasn't expecting it.

[null and void]

The sight of people jumping saved lives, too. In the south tower, people had a close-up view of people plunging to their deaths from a building that was a mirror image of their own. "I looked at a couple of people jumping, and that was it. I'd seen enough. I said, 'We've got to get the hell out of here,' "

At least some did not die in vain.

Rest in Peace my friends, you will be avenged 100 fold...

[mvpel]

To safeguard people from falling bodies and debris, authorities blocked the main exits from the lobbies to the street. Instead, people escaping from both towers were sent through an underground shopping mall and under the outdoor plaza where bodies were falling.

I would submit that they were people or terrorist victims until the moment they hit the ground, and only then did they become "bodies."