Amy Sterling Casil
1 min readAug 22, 2021

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Yes, the film of The Falling Man shows how angry family members were because it was stated that their family members jumped or committed suicide. There were at least two families potential of the falling man who did not want this to be their father/son/brother because they were Catholic. I do not think the fairly large number of people who fell were either all jumping "bravely" on purpose or jumped by choice - as I commented above it has been well-established conditions in many places were enough to blast people out of the windows or make it impossible for them to stay where they were. But sure, it's really "brave" to romanticize a terror victim - if you've seen the series of photos or the film, he is not falling in this orientation either, he is spinning and tumbling in turbulent air like any person would. The time from the top to the ground was 10 seconds. I am a tiny bit shocked that this horrible situation would, once again, be romanticized for clickbait and bravery. You can see the man is wearing a kitchen uniform jacket so he worked at Windows on the World. No one knows for certain who he is because potential family members have stated it is not their relative. Due to what you're mocking in your certainty about a stranger in a horrific situation captured in his last moments of life on film.

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Amy Sterling Casil
Amy Sterling Casil

Written by Amy Sterling Casil

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