Letters to the Editor
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THE COURAGE OF THE ""FALLEN MAN"
After reading the Esquire article in its entirety, please let me declare that those who ''fell''to their deaths from the Towers on 9-ll were very courageous humans. If you are on the edge of a high cliff and a raging fire is right behind you, you have to have the ''courage against all odds" to ''jump to save your life." Somehow the reasoning that those jumping were suicidal and hell-bound is horribly wrong in the strongest sense. I believe the reaction of the public (USA) to this photo had nothing to do with ''privacy,'' rather than a national fear of confronting oneself, "Would I have the courage to do what the ''fallen''did? When the slaves of the Old South were cruelly brutalized, sexually abused, and violently oppressed, many (if history would record it) chose
to just walk-off to freedom even though it meant their deaths.
Many concentration surviors chose the same "freedom" to be shot in the back rather than submitt to a slow, agonizing death by Nazi psychotics. My great-great grandmother on the forced Cherokee march (The Blood of Tears) walked barefooted in the snow every step of the way. However, the tribe also honored those young braves who chose to just walk off and be shot rather than lose their freedom to the cruelty of oppression by the white man. These heroic fallen should be respected with reverence that they chose the freedom of their own destines rather than submit to a raging certain death.
So rather than look down on them, let us confront our own fears by ''looking'' to see ''if we would have the courage to do what they chose to do." In Goodwill, kunndunn@Yahoo.com