The almost sickest thing I've seen

I’m not going to post a link because it was a Powerpoint executable slide show that I received as an email attachment. I expect it’s making the rounds and others out there have seen it.

Most of the slides are the images we’ve seen on TV. Explosions, planes, etc. But 3 or 4 (I deleted the email completely from my account so I can’t watch it again, nor would I want to) of the slides were pictures of the people who jumped. Pictures of people as they were falling.

Why the hell do you think I need to see that??? Even the TV media isn’t showing those pictures. I know it happened, but seeing pictures isn’t going to make it better. It’s horrible, terrible, and… I can’t begin to describe it.

It’s just not appropriate. This event is going to haunt us for a long time. But now those pictures are burned into my memory. Let us heal.

If anyone is interested in seeing the slide show, I think some of my coworkers were also sent the email. I might be able to track it down. But I don’t really think you’d want to see it.

I got a copy of it, too. There were over 140 people on the ‘cc’ list. Recycle bin with that trash, immediately.

Ahh, that explains it. I received it, too, but I don’t have PowerPoint.

They showed a picture of someone falling in the newspaper the day after it happened. It made me sick. I couldn’t beleive that they would put something like that in the paper.

What are you talking about? I couldn’t watch TV for 5 minutes on days 1 and 2 without seeing that.

Well, I didn’t see it on TV. I saw videos of people hanging out of windows, but no one jumping.

Granted, I didn’t have access to a TV from 10am-4pm CDT on Tuesday, but I did hear Peter Jennings say that they weren’t showing those pictures because of how gruesome they could be.

But my point is that I don’t think they should show them.