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Like millions of Americans, I did not sleep much on the night of September 11. I was horrified all day, but by the evening of September 11, 2001, increasingly angry. Horrified because 3,000 innocents had been murdered not just by 7th-century fanatical terrorists, but by cruel Dark-Age murderers who, in the best parasitical fashion, had managed to gnaw at their distracted host from the inside.That duplicity was eerie and creepy — the premeditated design of Middle Easterners to live among and blend in for months with the very culture they despised and wished to destroy. Their hatred soon translated into sixteen acres of ash in Manhattan and a smoking Pentagon. Most of us could no longer watch the tape of those jumping off the World Trade Center, calibrating in extremis whether it was worse to implode on the concrete or be incinerated in their offices. Those images have never left us.The entire day was ghoulish, and by evening, like some of you, I was worried that a number of post-modern Western ideologies of the last three decades were not only known to bin Laden’s gang, but comprehensively so to the point they would be used serially against the West in brilliantly sinister fashion. Was 9/11 the beginning of something even worse? No civilization could endure three or four successive attacks such as those on September 11.
Most of us could no longer watch the tape of those jumping off the World Trade Center ...
I also don't remember seeing video of people jumping that day. I was otherwise occupied. (See here and scroll down almost to the bottom.)But I do remember seeing pictures in the newspapers and reading descriptions and accounts. There were a lot of jumpers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c6Rb5B0vrgIComment: LinkWhat a beautiful tribute to an ugly sad day. I was watching Fox when the first reports came in and couldn’t walk away the rest of the day or week for that matter. Other than God and family, I love America most. Having lived oversea’s, my husband served in the Air Force for 24 years, I can honestly say, there is no other place like America. We can not allow it to be taken from us by people who see death more sacred than life. The song only added to the feeling of loss. Does anyone know who the singer was? Her voice is familiar but can’t place it.
I didn't catch his name, but Fox had a gentlemen on aroun 11-12 oclock (central) and they were showing pics of some who had jumped.