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  1. Sep 2019
    1. They jumped through windows already broken and then, later, through windows they broke themselves.

      It is hard, to say the least, to find a position when it comes to these events. I empathize with the families whose suffering makes them protective of their loved one's fatalities. But I simultaneously understand the need to report horrific events. The need to record our history. Same happens with the general curiosity to find out who this man was. Because we need to know who he was, what he did for a living, who he never came back home to. To know that he was a real person, not the iconic body falling from the tower, but the human being who faced such an awful anticipation prior death. There's certain controversy when it comes to jumpers. People have criticized their decision to escape from the flames by jumping to a "coward" death. Which I do not understand. If something, victims of 9/11 (of any kind) must be always remembered as innocent collateral damage in this senseless war. By no means did they intend to have the fate they endured.