The Falling Man - 9/11

A week or two back the documentary "The Falling Man" was put on tv, this was a program about the man who was seen falling head first from one of the twin towers. The program itself was a bit of a let down in that aside from a few guesses it failed to establish who he was or any new info as to his identity.

This is now known and I have put an article I came across by Frank Salvato below and link to the original.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16814470&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=exclusive--revealed-the-falling-man-of-9-11-name_page.html
http://www.cnsnews.com/viewCommentary.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200603\COM20060324a.html

Feeling the Pain of the Falling Man of 9/11
By Frank Salvato
CNSNews.com Commentary
March 24, 2006

Everyone remembers the horrifying images of September 11, 2001. Anyone alive and aware on that date will live with those images the rest of his or her life. The scenes of havoc and panic, destruction and slaughter, demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that even though the United States military is the best trained and well equipped in the world, our country remains vulnerable to the wicked.

When one accepts the fact -- and it is a fact -- that the free world, not just the United States, is at war with radical Islam, this story is all the more chilling and disturbing.

The mainstream media in the United States has taken the images of September 11, 2001, off the television and out of the newspapers. They say that the images are too disturbing, that they incite a want for revenge rather than allow closure. But they are wrong to do this.

The United States should not and cannot simply forgive and forget just because the host country of the Taliban and al Qaeda -- Afghanistan -- has been liberated and transformed.

Facts demonstrate that al Qaeda, the Taliban and radical Islam have been planning and preparing to implement their global campaign of terrorism -- their declared war against the Western World -- since before 1993, well before September 11th.

Their central location for training may have been eliminated, but they had prepared for that, splintering like roaches to the four corners of the world, preparing, planning and implementing their battle plans made decades before.

Make no mistake, they are a cunning adversary. They understood that the U.S. would come after them. They planned for this event.

This war cannot be about "tolerance" or forgiving, or about understanding the "reasons why" someone would want to murder innocents whether it be with an airplane, a car bomb, a suicide vest or a saif.

This battle has to be about freedom and the right of innocents to live their lives in liberty, free of fear from an unholy sect of genocidal totalitarians who offer only oppression, dominance and terror as their bounty.

The "progressive" left and the complicit mainstream media would have us believe that America is to blame for her audacity in the promotion of freedom and free markets, liberty and the vision of a world free of dictators who torture, murder and slaughter for power.

To that extent, "progressives" and the agenda-driven media are dangerous and a direct threat to the existence of our country, teetering on the brink of treason and sedition. They will attack these words by saying that I have intimated that they are not patriotic and un-American.

For the record, I hold the belief that anyone who believes the United States brought 9/11 onto itself IS unpatriotic and un-American. I believe that they have become toadies for our enemy and should be treated and opposed as such.

While they manipulate the true meaning of the First Amendment's free speech clause, they attempt to indoctrinate and transform our youth and the less-than-suspecting among us into believing in the doctrine of self-loathing, an oppressive ideology born of the less than great thinkers of Europe almost a century ago.

In its March 15, 2006, edition, The Mirror, a British publication (the American mainstream media is too gutless to publish such truth), revealed the identity of a man who had to make the unimaginable decision of whether to burn to death in the raging fires of the World Trade Center on September 11th or escape the pain of hell on earth by leaping from the top of one of the world's tallest buildings to his certain death.

The article is titled "Revealing the Identity of the Falling Man of 9/11." Jonathan Briley was "The Falling Man of 9/11."

I beg of each of you to read the article. Look at the picture and feel Jonathan Briley's helplessness, his terror, and then try to imagine the split second of excruciating pain that he felt when his body hit the cement below with such force that he, a human being just seconds before, was left a bloodstain on a sidewalk, slaughtered like road kill by radical Islamists.

The people of the United States need to rekindle the flame of emotional anguish about the attacks of September 11, 2001. We need to seethe. We need to employ the ingenuity and intelligence that is fostered in a free society dedicated to liberty, and scream our ire from the top of the world. Then we need to take definitive action.

If we are to wage war on terror, then let us be the ones who strike terror into the hearts of our enemies. Let us bring terror to those who blow up innocents, saw the heads off hostages and threaten the world with words of annihilation and nuclear Armageddon.

If we are to be in a war we did not choose to begin, then in the memory of all who have fallen to provide freedom and liberty to the world, let us be the ones who act decisively to end it.

We need to embrace the undeniable truth that the free world is at war and cease pandering to those who would wake up one day in the future ruing the fact that we should have acted earlier.

A pre-emptive strike doctrine for the United States? You're damn right!

(Frank Salvato is managing editor of The New Media Journal.us.)

HORROR: The Falling Man

Five years after the horror of September 11, 2001, the falling man has finally been identified as Jonathan Briley, a 43-year-old who worked in a restaurant at the top of the north tower.

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