200 chose jumping as a better way to die than burning to death, September 11, 2001

• Above 9/11/01, World Trade Center, Reuters

• Jumper, 9/11/01, above, getty

• "The Falling Man," 9/11/01, ap photo by Richard Drew, via Esquire, via wz

9/10/11, "The 9/11 victims America wants to forget: The 200 jumpers who flung themselves from the Twin Towers who have been 'airbrushed from history'," UK Daily Mail, Tom Leonard

• "Almost all of them jumped alone, although eyewitnesses talked of a couple who held hands as they fell."...

9/10/11, "Children of 9/11: Life with a parent missing," Newsday, Carol Polsky (subscription)

• "Nearly 3,000 children under the age of 18 lost a parent on Sept 11. The average age was 9. A total of 108 were born in the months after their fathers died.

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