’Can you imagine how bad it must be up there?’ (9/11 fireman people jumping)

Perhaps the most upsetting images of this Islamist attack were those of the desperate men and women who were forced to jump from the top of the WTC. At over 1,000 feet above ground level and on broken window ledges, for how long did these poor souls contemplate that unimaginable fall? The human desire to live and hold on was slowly extinguished by soaring heat, smoke and hopelessness. Eyewitnesses from adjacent towers describe seeing some victims making the sign of the cross before jumping, others victims w