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[Brian37]

Driving to a repair job, heard it on the radio, I thought it was something like a light aircraft crashing into the building, had to go and do the repair so didn't hear anything else until I got home and saw it on TV, the one thing I will never forget is the pictures of people jumping off to escape the flames and smashing into the ground, it still makes me feel sick to think about it even now.
I was in New York many years later and visited the site (about 2 weeks before the new tower opened to the public) got the chills thinking about it, but it was one of those places I just had to visit

I don't remember how long after, but Time Magazine had a couple of issues focused on that day. The most disturbing pictures were the jumpers. And I don't mean the now famous "falling man". l wasn't aware of that particular image until a couple of years ago. 

Back then shortly after it happened, a photographer caught several jumpers at once. The pictures, to my memory were not up close, but you could tell they were humans, almost flea sized but still close enough you could make out they were humans. The most haunting image to me were a couple holding hands on the way down. The image had a couple of single people far below the couple, then another one single above them. 

I wish I could describe that one picture better. But it would be like having a defective water faucet that dripped one drop after another.