9/11 Jumper pictures?

[Rooskibar03]

(First, my thoughts and prayers go out to all affected by the day, and thanks to all who have served to keep us safe, both before and since then)

Now on topic. I'm seeing tons of photos on FB and around the web of people who jumped and were clinging to the WTC on 9/11.

Is it must me or does anyone else find these offensive? These people lost their lives, tragically. I doubt any can be indentified by those photos but how would you feel knowing that was the last picture of your loved one?

I remember when this happen there was an unspoken agreement not to show these kinds of images. Now it seems like people feel enough time has passed that its "okay"?

[henpecked]

Sometimes history is not pretty........

[Ronin13]

I find that mildly offensive, but what I find worse, and I've seen two recently and I dare not post them here- the first showed a Boeing 757 painted up like an angry bird, with the green pigs on top of the WTC. The second was a pic of the WTC with the words "I'd hit it, like a 747." I find these jokes to be sick, depraved, and seriously fucked up. I would love to meet the asshats that made them in a very dark, very secluded alley with no cell service and I have a very big lead pipe...

They'd look pretty funny trying to eat corn on the cob with no fucking teeth.

[exxonv]

Once you've seen and smelled death, there is nothing fun about it whatsoever...

Getting off on other people's pain and misery is sick.

Being there, feeling it (and that smell...) are enough to cure any rational person of any sense of entertainment in my opinion.

The un-initiated are naturally curious though, and I do get that part of it...

[Sharpienads]

I guess the context of the pictures would be the determining factor. If you're trying to show how tragic the whole thing was, then there is a place for those pictures. If you're just a douchebag with a facebook account then it's inappropriate.

I was thinking about the people that jumped yesterday. I can't imagine being in a situation where jumping off the top of a skyscraper seems like the best option. That would be horrible.

[Ronin13]

I guess the context of the pictures would be the determining factor. If you're trying to show how tragic the whole thing was, then there is a place for those pictures. If you're just a douchebag with a facebook account then it's inappropriate.

I was thinking about the people that jumped yesterday. I can't imagine being in a situation where jumping off the top of a skyscraper seems like the best option. That would be horrible.

I got to meet three survivors from FDNY- they were the only survivors from their station... Two were down in the command center in the lobby and after the first few thuds they figured out what they were. One of them said "It must have been hell on earth in there for someone to choose that way out over whatever horror they were experiencing inside." They said that sound would haunt them for the rest of eternity. I couldn't imagine being at the scene and seeing and hearing that.

[Zundfolge]

I've got mixed feelings about these pictures.

On one hand I see your point, the horror of these pictures is not something to be taken lightly out of respect for the dead.

On the other hand many folk don't seem to understand (or don't WANT to understand) what a great evil was perpetrated that day and why we should remember it. They want us to forget our anger and pretend it never happened. It's easier to pretend that it was just a couple of buildings that get knocked down when you don't see actual people dying.

[Mick-Boy]

They make me feel offended. They make me feel offended and angry and frustrated that my countrymen died that way.

That's exactly the way I want to feel every time I see them too. I don't ever want to forget that feeling.

[Chad4000]

^^ exactly....

[DFBrews]

They make me feel offended. They make me feel offended and angry and frustrated that my countrymen died that way.

That's exactly the way I want to feel every time I see them too. I don't ever want to forget that feeling.

AMEN