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- inactive, on 09/12/2008, -34/+728Unfortunately, I saw all of this firsthand. There is nothing more disturbing then seeing people jumping out of a building and then seeing those buildings come down right in front of your eyes. Everything was totally surreal and I try to block those images out of my head.
In spite of that, what sticks out the most to me, is how NYC came together and became stronger than ever after that day. That was a wake up call for the city and all of America. It brought everybody together and we all looked at life in a whole new light after that. - Darren07, on 09/12/2008, -5/+352I saw the documentary film about this photo, where they searched, and found who the man: he was a chef who worked for one of the top floor restaurants.
The movie is called "The Falling Man", very touching and well made, and can be watched on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXnA9FjvLSU - lucy22, on 09/12/2008, -10/+210This is a disturbing image. A lot from that day were too horrifying for words.
- inactive, on 09/12/2008, -2/+156it is disheartening knowing that so many people in their little bubbles cry 'insensitive' when presented with images depicting their reality in ways they deem discomforting. i was asked just recently to remove the twin towers from an image of new york city in an online-movie 'poster'.. i was floored, and asked my producer to talk some sense into them, but alas, i have become a part of the despicable historical-cover-up-machine. i am not proud.
- sarazen, on 09/12/2008, -6/+116That image will stick in my head forever, as will the face of the now fatherless girl who showed up at my kid's play group a few days later. I know that it has been seven years, but for me it still feels too fresh. The smells, flag be-decked fire trucks racing through the city, my husband's cough after he helped rebuild one of the data centers across the river in Jersey City... I'll never forget...
- jayadelson, on 09/12/2008, -7/+110I think what is more gripping is the story behind the photo, and the way the author has presented its legacy.
- Lith25, on 09/12/2008, -10/+87No. Obama has always wanted to take out the people responsible for 9/11. He's against starting mindless wars with countries who had no hand in the act.
- CrankyHippo, on 09/13/2008, -10/+86I flew in to NYC on Sept 22, and i have never seen so many American flags in my life! You're absolutely right about how it brought everyone together and put things into perspective. It really is a terrible shame that it was wasted and twisted by the Bush Administration.
- inactive, on 09/12/2008, -10/+83Death by that jump comes in 10 seconds
Death by fire (actually, the fire's radiant heat and smoke) MAY take minutes while one is slowly cooked!
Brave is the one to chooses for death to come on swift wings! - wwwonka, on 09/13/2008, -5/+74...and THIS is the power of DIGG sometimes. To not only bring a great story of real proportions, but follow ups like yours Darren to further enhance the story.
- algaeturd, on 09/12/2008, -8/+77You ***** inbred idiot. How typically republican to take an image of a dying man and try to use it as some kind of lever in a political battle.
Your wonderful leaders started a ***** war in Iraq over this day even though there was ZERO evidence to target them.
Do you want to see the photos of the corpses of soldiers who were returned home in boxes during that conflict?
Maybe you'd like to comment about your party's blame in the countless needless deaths it generated?
Any more republican comments you want to make about death, life and war?
What a prick. This comment shows the sheer stupidity of so many Americans and how they'll stop at nothing to slant and twist their political message. - byrdgang, on 09/13/2008, -6/+71According to the article, a journalist had taken the photograph to a suspected family member of The Falling Man. Here's the rest:
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He brought...[the]...photograph with him and showed it to Jacqueline Hernandez, the oldest of Norberto's [the man believed to be The Falling Man] three daughters. She looked briefly at the picture, then at Cheney, and ordered him to leave.
What Cheney remembers her saying, in her anger, in her offended grief: "That piece of ***** is not my father.
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How can she be so unbelievably insensitive? Even if it's not her father, it's someone else...it's someone who saw all the fire and jumped out of the window. It's extremely inappropriate to call this person a "piece of *****." - Zarokima, on 09/13/2008, -12/+71And that's why you're a terrible human being who should die painful, agonizing death.
- Tyorant, on 09/13/2008, -7/+63You don't care that innocent people died? ***** you.
- BigManOnCampus, on 09/12/2008, -3/+57I want to remember. Not for myself. I want to remember for those that come after me.
- ks136, on 09/12/2008, -0/+46Although all the images from that day are horrific and seared into my memory forever, for some reason, it was seeing people begin to jump that shook me out of my disbelief about what was happening. It was the moment my shock, horror, and absolute rage all came together. Even though this photograph has always been controversial, to me, it's a symbolic memorial to all those who were lost that day, and especially to those who had the ultimate courage to either choose or accept their fate. To this day, I still grieve for them all, and I always will.
- voyetra8, on 09/13/2008, -2/+46Except that he wasn't a chef.
His name was Jonathan Briley, a 43-year-old employee of the Windows on the World restaurant, identified by chef Michael Lomonaco as The Falling Man. Briley was a sound engineer who lived outside of Manhattan, in Mount Vernon, and worked in the North Tower restaurant. - Frozo, on 09/13/2008, -1/+40Yeah, but it didnt take long for NYC to get back to "business as usual" as far as the flow of the city, and the general considerations. It's ok though, thats NYC. Its just comforting to know that if ever needed we can come together in an instant.
- dericko, on 09/13/2008, -9/+48Tons of community effort went into the remaking of New Orleans, blood donations, money contributions, etc.. and the scale of attack New Orleans encountered was much larger than that of NYC (physically).
- Adam420, on 09/12/2008, -5/+42"They began jumping not long after the first plane hit the North Tower, not long after the fire started. They kept jumping until the tower fell. They jumped through windows already broken and then, later, through windows they broke themselves. They jumped to escape the smoke and the fire; they jumped when the ceilings fell and the floors collapsed; they jumped just to breathe once more before they died. They jumped continually, from all four sides of the building, and from all floors above and around the building's fatal wound. They jumped from the offices of Marsh & McLennan, the insurance company; from the offices of Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond-trading company; from Windows on the World, the restaurant on the 106th and 107th floors -- the top. For more than an hour and a half, they streamed from the building, one after another, consecutively rather than en masse, as if each individual required the sight of another individual jumping before mustering the courage to jump himself or herself. One photograph, taken at a distance, shows people jumping in perfect sequence, like parachutists, forming an arc composed of three plummeting people, evenly spaced. Indeed, there were reports that some tried parachuting, before the force generated by their fall ripped the drapes, the tablecloths, the desperately gathered fabric, from their hands. They were all, obviously, very much alive on their way down, and their way down lasted an approximate count of ten seconds. They were all, obviously, not just killed when they landed but destroyed, in body though not, one prays, in soul. One hit a fireman on the ground and killed him; the fireman's body was anointed by Father Mychal Judge, whose own death, shortly thereafter, was embraced as an example of martyrdom after the photograph -- the redemptive tableau -- of firefighters carrying his body from the rubble made its way around the world."
- inactive, on 09/13/2008, -3/+39I don't know if I should bury you for your ignorance towards Islam, or because you used the wrong spelling of "peace".
Regardless. BURIED. - dericko, on 09/13/2008, -17/+52I was going to Digg you until your last line..
Not saying it's not a good place, but come on. The city was given an opportunity to shine, and it did.. give that same opportunity to anywhere else in the US and I am sure the city will shine just as bright.
It's human nature, deep down.. I've seen it first hand here in my smaller county (150k-ish) when we had floods a few years ago, everyone basically stopped what they were doing and helped evacuate houses, etc, etc.. - pandorazboxx, on 09/13/2008, -1/+32i think the point is you choose your own way of dying, rather then let it be chosen for you.
- sofunnyithurts, on 09/13/2008, -5/+36"This is my third digg account. My other two were deleted for anti-Israel comments." ***** you you piece of *****
- h3lx, on 09/13/2008, -20/+50"...and I am sure the city will shine just as bright."
New Orleans was given an opportunity to shine... but instead is descended into despair where it pretty much resides to this day. - inactive, on 09/13/2008, -0/+30Sorry for the commentjack, but WTF esquire?
http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=oddoc0.jp ... - jnrosemas, on 09/13/2008, -1/+30buried at the point you mentioned "fight club".
- hvsahin, on 09/13/2008, -9/+37Ugh, I can't imagine actually being there. I couldn't even get through the article without starting to cry.
- inactive, on 09/12/2008, -4/+31Which is exactly why it is a powerful image that should not be forgotten.
- sleepysteve, on 09/13/2008, -2/+29Perhaps it's just a girl who was incredibly distraught over her father's death and said something she didn't mean out of anguish or denial?
- MattFromSeattle, on 09/13/2008, -2/+28Horse *****, you need to pull your head out of your ass and think for yourself. I'm not saying that the Clinton administration did everything they could, but you cannot put all fault on their administration. All the evidence of what Bin Laden was doing was given to the W administration and they chose to do nothing with it, so don't play the 'Republicans have the best interest of the people' crap.
- leakus, on 09/12/2008, -2/+28Not exactly accurate. Obama said he would talk to the Iranian government. None of the 19 involved hijacker was from Iran. 15 of them were from Saudi Arabia though, and as far as I know, the current US government never questioned the relationship with the Saudis.
- bicyclethief, on 09/13/2008, -2/+27I think it's a natural human reaction to romanticize the time before 911 as "better." 911 didn't happen in a vacuum. The world was chaotic and barbaric before 911, or else it wouldn't have happened.
Reading this article, even seven years later, a rage in my gut wells up in me. At the terrorists. At Bush for wasting away America's, the world's, unity. At the wasted opportunity to turn something so horrifying, so tragic, so personal into...something else. - Ryan2845, on 09/13/2008, -0/+24Yeah you have to watch the whole thing because the first half is about how they originally mistakenly identified the man as Norberto Hernandez, a chef.
They figure out who it really is around the 1 hour mark in the video. - antoniuk, on 09/13/2008, -4/+28This is by far one of the coldest people I have ever seen on digg. I do not applaud you nor feel anything at all toward you and yet I can not help but wonder if no one has ever loved you.
- voyetra8, on 09/13/2008, -6/+30They were devout Catholics. Suicide is a serious no-no, and would prevent one from getting into heaven.
IE- Anyone who would commit suicide is a piece of *****. - Tyr86, on 09/12/2008, -0/+24You're not from around here, are you?
- inactive, on 09/12/2008, -0/+22Similar to explicitmemory this was all too real. I did not have to see the story or the picture to know what it is. Living through it burns those images in the mind, and then when I just read the story in Esquire, tears form in the mind as well as in the eyes. It was a horrific time - but again as explicitmemory said it was amazing to watch all of NY come together. I remember candles being held by people on every street corner in every borough. It was an amazing show of love and strength and faith. Just something I will never - ever be able to forget and I do not want to!
- ericdano, on 09/13/2008, -6/+28Wow, more articles like this need to be on Digg.
- jcorn1, on 09/12/2008, -0/+22I have one of the papers or magazines with that photo in it. Ironically, we had a subscription to the N Y Times then, even though we weren't regular subscribers. It was a gift subscription, along with subscriptions to many New York magazines and publications and some national magazines as well. I remember that photo and the varying coverage of 9/11. I wonder how all of it, the memories, the coverage...will change or not as years go by. Will this history be revised? Will it be contested? Or will people's memories stay true to what they saw and witnessed and heard and felt?
- nathron, on 09/13/2008, -9/+30I tried reading the article, but the writer is too pretentious for me to handle.
- BigManOnCampus, on 09/12/2008, -0/+21I share similar sentiments, and I was in fact angry at people who suppressed the images of people jumping from the buildings. If you can't take looking at such pictures, then don't look, but don't try to alter the reality of what happened. There's no sugar coating for this pill.
- amercer, on 09/13/2008, -0/+21"Ed. Note: This article originally appeared in the September 2003 issue of Esquire."
- katierosekills, on 09/12/2008, -0/+21Just read the article. Really moving. RIP.
- swordphish, on 09/13/2008, -1/+22Wow. Ignorance at it's very finest. The truth is: people like you, people who choose war over diplomacy, are just as evil as the sick ***** who took down the towers. The audacity of people like you, and the terrorists, is almost beautiful in a sick way.
- Indrius, on 09/13/2008, -2/+23The same goes for 4000+ US soldiers killed in Iraq. You can find only a few photos of dead US soldiers. You won't see them in the media, people don't like reality, they like to live in their imagination, TV shows and amusement parks.
- Frozo, on 09/13/2008, -0/+21I guess you don't realize that people who jump off of bridges don't die from drowning, they die from the impact. The surface tension of the water might as well be like pavement.
- chrissku, on 09/13/2008, -3/+23Our country and our world has never been the same since 911. Anyone else agree that times were much better pre 911? Things never really went back to normal. Or maybe our perception of normal changed?
- GhostToon, on 09/13/2008, -0/+20I am guessing the anger came from the fact that the man chose such an insensitive time as a funeral to show the picture.
- mickrussom, on 09/13/2008, -13/+33"It brought everybody together "
Except our political leaders who insist on spending irrationally and refusing to do anything about why societies are clashing while mortgaging our futures for perpetual war and serving the military industrial complex.
9/11 did nothing but become the Reichstag fire. You can try and gloss the event, but its probably the beginning of the end an nothing good came of up.
Return to your fantasy of unity. -
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