9-11 Jumpers: One of the Most Emotional Scenes I’ve ever seen

I believe this is one of the emotional scenes I have ever seen on 911. could you imagine having to make a decision whether to burn or jump it’s absolutely horrid

[jakehobbs]

To everyone who keeps asking: The documentary is called 9/11:One Day in America

[johnevans]

I lost a sweet lady that day, Terry Munson. Sweetest kindest soul you'd ever want to know, we miss you.

[phillbr]

I'm a pretty cold-hearted, cynical prick, but I will never, ever get over seeing these poor souls have to make this horrifying decision.

[Pablo]

To have empathy is to be human. It's what makes us what we are. The fact that witnessing another human, who you may not know or have any kind of connection with, in an extremity like this, and it's enough to make you scream and cry and feel pain, tells you just about everything you need to know about humanity. This is despite the cruelty that we are capable of.

[AM-xeiq]

I was 19 years old on 9/11. Seeing the people forced to jump…I’ve never gotten over it.

[Stefanie]

I have a hard time grasping the thought of having to decide between burning and jumping to my death. Not only that but being a passenger on one of the 4 planes knowing you're going to crash and die. How terrified they must have been. Its gut wrenching to think about. The one tiny consolation is knowing those on the plane and the jumpers didn't feel a thing. I do hope that brings even a small amount of comfort to their loved ones. Rest peacefully, victims in NY DC and PA. You will never ever be forgotten

[mackydog]

Watching these videos really keeps things in perspective. Makes me cry every time, and the horror that those poor witnesses saw will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

[alephnull]

There are so many 9/11 stories we will never know about. Possibly ones filled with heroic acts committed by regular people for regular people. Acts that may have been just shy of saving all parties involved. But these were heroic acts nonetheless, that occurred behind the scenes of our collective knowledge. Never to be recorded in our history. I try to imagine them and pay respects to what I will never know.

[runnerlife]

this doesn’t even seem fucking real. how could this have happened? 23 years later and i’ll still never understand. RIP to the poor souls whose lives were cruelly stolen from them this day

[mw]

I was 6 months pregnant with my now 21 year old son and I can't at all even fathom that horrible choice of one's fate; to either be burned alive or to jump off the twin towers building and know you will not survive. How absolutely awful that must have been. These people who were called *jumpers* did not willingly commit suicide, they were forced to make two equally terrible choices created by evil. They were just hard working human beings just going through the morning like they did every day and then terror struck. I pray to this day for those precious lives lost, the survivors, the families, friends and those unborn who now are in their 20s or 30s who have no mother, father, sibling, uncle, aunt, cousin, grand parents or a special friend or Co worker. Everyone lost something that day. We will NEVER forget 9/11. 😢❤🙏

[amara]

I watch these every year and still feel the anguish and horror every time. 😢

[heathbar]

That scene you pointed out also struck me. It just captures the feeling of helplessness the people from the streets would have felt as they witnessed a life extinguished. So horrible.

[julierutherford]

I revisit these stories more often than the days and weeks after the attacks. The victims were extremely unfortunate and their fate still haunts me to til this day and it keeps me humble. I hope their spirits are in a better place.

[lisal.]

I was 28 working and living in NJ and I stood outside and saw the smoke from the towers. The morning of 9/11 was one horrific minute after another and it all happened in less then 3 hours. Absolute horror. I swear the sky still has never looked as blue

[WretchedJZ]

Yea.. that scene in that documentary always makes me break down.. especially seeing everyone’s reactions too.

Your not alone..😢

[watchcity]

I cried for three days for those people and for the animals who's owners never came home.

[wegotlumpsofitroundtheback]

That man standing outside the window, holding onto the outer frame of the window (0:19) 80 stories up is a testament to how horrifically hot the inside of that building must have been. Some fire fighters I know said the temperature easily could have escalated up to 1, 000 degrees within 5 minutes after impact. That heat drove this man to do something that no sane person would ever do: to break a window and hang on the outside of that building 80 floors above the street knowing that losing his grip meant certain death and a terrifying drop of 8 seconds as the street below rushed up to hit you. It's been said that falling at terminal velocity like would render your body, which is mostly water, to essentially vaporize on impact. Firefighters reported seeing exactly that. A thick cloud of pink mist would plume up from the spot where bodies hit. No body parts scattering, no blood splatter. Just vaporized like a water balloon inside their clothes.

[jesusalfredomagana]

After all these years i see this stuff about 9/11 and i still get emotional 😢

[dannyb]

2024 and this never gets easier to see.

[chilllaze]

When I saw the documentary, this scene in particular hit me. This affects me so differently as an adult, understanding what death is and the pin of losing someone when you saw them earlier that day, week month or year. Understanding the horror of this day and the terror and trauma both victims and survivors endured. As an adult, it just hits different. Scenes like this make it real for me. It's not just building collapsing. It's humans experiencing a horrific tradgedy.