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-30-: Annotation Tuesday! Tom Junod and "The Falling Man"

I posted my thoughts today on my Facebook and Twitter accounts, but I don’t think that I uploaded this iconic image or the link to the article here, luckily I seem to not be the only person on Tumblr that finds this image so vividly linked to their own memory of that day.  This story, this image, and my recollection of watching all the other jumpers on the TV that early afternoon (I was on the west coast) still stay with me more than any other 9/11 memory.  Kudos to Tom Junod and Esquire for running this story, I still remember when I first read it so long ago, I was still an Esquire subscriber.

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Annotation Tuesday! #2:

Of the countless 9/11 stories, “The Falling Man,” by Tom Junod
(Esquire, September 2003), stayed with me more than any other. The story centers on an iconic photo …


… of an unidentified World Trade Center employee dropping to his death. The photo…

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