9/11 Disaster.
This photo illustrates a scene of a man jumping of a building, judging from it, i can tell that the building is one of magnificent proportions, a very tall and huge one indeed. It could most probably be the result of the terrorist attacks on the Twin towers in New York, year 2001, 9/11.As seen in the photo, part of the building is totally in ruins, the hole in the building looks like total hell, with raging flames on a never ending onslaught. Some steel can be seen hot red from above in the photo. Concrete and wood could be seen lying around the area probably caused by the impact of the planes ramming into the building.
The most eye catching and heart wrenching part of this photo is the only person in the picture, a man jumping of the towering skyscraper. The man is without shirt as he had taken out his shirt due to the intense heat that is surrounding him. I reckon that the man had been driven to desperation and he most probably had only two options which is wait to be incinerated alive or jump to his death. Sadly, he had absolutely zero chance of survival. If observed very closely, the man could be seen calling someone when he jumped off the skyscraper.To me, this is certainly a very sad and heart-breaking scene. He must have called his loved ones to talk to them for the very last time. Most probably to tell them how much he love them as he would never have the chance again.
For me, I would definitely not have that enormous amount of courage to jump off, as it is as good as committing suicide, moreover we are talking about leaping off a height of around 50 to 100 over storeys. I would maybe just break down and cry as I will lose everything, especially my family, I will miss them so much. However people in that situation had totally no options, burning to death would be a very painful one, hence jumping off was less painful. Adding on to that was the fumes of smoke bellowing from the building. The more the people exhaled, the sooner they will lose consciousness hence most would rather jump off at least their bodies could be found.
Judging from how fast the buildings collapsed, i certainly feel that the planes crashing into the buildings was not the sole contribution to their collapse. One look at the photo, we can tell that the steel was definitely reinforced, they were very strong and would no melt and give way just by the burning of jet fuel, no way!
How could quarter mile high buildings with phenomenally strong core structures be designed to fall into their footprints in the event of a disaster? Moreover the melting point of steel is more than 1500 degree Celcius, jet fuel's was only about 800 degrees Celsius. Reports had also said that there were witnesses of ground shake on the ground floor. Even if the top part of the building collapse, it would not be strong enough to push the rest all the way down. Investigations have suggest that the buildings collapsed in a matter of a few minutes just after the plane crash. This is only possible if bombs were involved.
Hence till today, everything remains a mystery. Many suggest that it could be an inside job. Moreover only an estimated sum of $600,000 dollars was spent on the investigations of this incident as compared to the staggering $50 million set aside for the Columbia shuttle disaster. Nonetheless, I am sadden by deaths of the many innocent people, some which even had to jump off the building like the man here. I am indeed sadden by these tragedies which caused some much destruction and lives lost. Overall, I really hope that World peace one day will be a success so that chances of these happenings can be reduced.
posted by Unknown @ 1:46 AM
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