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Mourning Someone
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Mourning Someone

Mourning Someone
Last night I turned to one of the most beautifully written and introspective reflections on September 11th: Tom Junod’s expose on The Falling Man. For me, the piece has 2 striking takeaways. It explores the extraordinary power of a photograph. More importantly, it reminds us why that tragic day remains in our hearts and minds: because regardless of how closely affected we were, we each had a fundamental connection to the events twelve years ago.

“Is Jonathan Briley the Falling Man? He might be. But maybe he didn’t jump from the window as a betrayal of love or because he lost hope. Maybe he jumped to fulfill the terms of a miracle. Maybe he jumped to come home to his family. Maybe he didn’t jump at all, because no one can jump into the arms of God.

Oh, no. You have to fall.

Yes, Jonathan Briley might be the Falling Man. But the only certainty we have is the certainty we had at the start: At fifteen seconds after 9:41 a.m., on September 11, 2001, a photographer named Richard Drew took a picture of a man falling through the sky — falling through time as well as through space. The picture went all around the world, and then disappeared, as if we willed it away. One of the most famous photographs in human history became an unmarked grave, and the man buried inside its frame — the Falling Man — became the Unknown Soldier in a war whose end we have not yet seen. Richard Drew’s photograph is all we know of him, and yet all we know of him becomes a measure of what we know of ourselves. The picture is his cenotaph, and like the monuments dedicated to the memory of unknown soldiers everywhere, it asks that we look at it, and make one simple acknowledgment.

That we have known who the Falling Man is all along.”

The full piece is more than worth a read: The Falling Man

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11 Sep 13
By : Kevin Sutherland
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