I Don't Want to Forget 9/11: The Images

Above image by Bill Biggart Bill Biggart's Final Pictures -9/11/2001 other images from New York Magazine online.


It;s the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. We’re naturally hearing more and more about that day. In the time since 2001, not counting watching documentaries about 9/11,  think about how often you’ve seen photos of the planes hitting the towers on the TV news, in magazines, or in the paper. For all the arguments about the wars we're involved in. The leaders who got us involved. The soldiers and civilians who have died. The financial cost. How many times in these stories have you seen the pictures of the planes hitting the towers, an open field, or the Pentagon?


My guess is not very often.


I've heard media people say on different shows that the reason we don't see the footage very often is because it is either:
a. too terrible
or
b. we would become desensitized to it from seeing it so often.
First and Second planes hitting WTC

Ten years later I'll never forget the images of that day. I've seen the planes hit the towers and Pentagon on many occasions and they still shock me.

I'll never forget the montage of photos of people jumping off the buildings.

Firefighter Mike Kehoe climbing up the stairs

Father Mychal Judge

Running

There are hundreds of others. Whether the media believes we should see the images or not, I'll never forget.

Thanks to all the men and women who were heroes on that day and on the days ever since.
Ev