The Falling Man

Tonight I was bored. I have plenty to keep me entertained and busy...but I found myself on youtube, a site I don't go to often. As I was browsing a documentary came up about September 11th, 2001 called The Falling Man. As many now know, several people jumped to their deaths, not because they wished to die but because death was a certainty and they had a choice...burn to death or jump. Many chose to jump even though the media quickly covered up that fact.

There are many that feel that taking your own life is a mortal sin punishable by going instantly to hell; but surely a loving, compassionate God would not send a man or woman to hell for jumping out of a 100 story building that was engulfed in flames and smoke. What would you have done? I probably would have jumped, just as a reflex to get away, to be in some sort of control over my death.

Watch this documentary and find out for yourself who The Falling Man captured on film is. I am sure it was a worker from the Windows On The World Restaurant, where I have eaten before. But The Falling Man is every man. He is you. He is me. He went to work that morning like so many other mornings and his life was taken from him, from his loved ones and from his friends. The Falling Man shows us that September 11, 2001 wasn't just an attack on the World Trade Center Towers; it was an attack against humanity. I pray for this man, that God had mercy on him enough to take his soul before he hit the ground and the souls of the other jumpers as well. They were not cowards; they are not in hell. They are with the Lord and one day those that are responsible for this will have to answer to them and to God, "Why?" What will they say? What can they say? These were not suicides; these were murders. You need to watch this video, you need to remember that these were real people with real lives and real families. VIDEO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXnA9FjvLSU