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Because it puts a human face on what happened. Because it shows a human being making a horrific decision to control the only thing he can control at that point: how and when he dies. He is an avatar for the thousands of innocent people who died that day simply because they went to work or stepped onto an airplane...the types of things normal people do every day.
It represents the horror of that day better than almost any other photograph I've ever seen of 9/11. It's a still and serene split-second of a human being dying alone, who never got the chance to hug his family again or tell them he loved them, but was defiant enough to flip the bird to the terrorists and decide to plunge 110 stories to his death rather than burn to death or suffocate, or be crushed by rubble. So in that respect, it also represents American defiance.
It's a VERY important image, one I hope people are not afraid to broadcast or print, and one that all of us should have the intestinal fortitude to look at and ponder.
Maybe it would be better if we did forget. The cause of 9/11 was American interventionism. What our reaction was to 9/11 was more interventionism. To quote Pat Buchanan "Terrorism is the price of empire".
The first jumpers/ fallers began within minutes of impact. It has been estimated there were about 200 jumpers/ fallers. They fell at speeds between 125-200 miles per hour, dependent upon position.
Many, many with familiy members who did not survive, strongly object to the term jumper because it implies suicide as opposed to God's Will. Instead, they are more comfortable with the concept of unintentional falling, accidents or in some cases, having been pushed as masses surged windows, for air.
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