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from the "Portraits of Grief" series that ran in the NY Times after 911: LINK

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Gordy AamothGordy Aamoth was at the top of his game. His golf was improving, and he had a membership in the Creek Club in Locust Valley, N.Y. He had girlfriends. And on Monday, Sept. 10, in his hometown of Minneapolis, he completed his biggest merger deal as an investment banker at Sandler O'Neill & Partners. The deal was to be officially announced the next day at the firm's World Trade Center office.

Mr. Aamoth, 32, was always a good athlete. He was the captain of his high school football team and played hockey. He went to Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., and earned a business degree. "He always knew he wanted to go to Wall Street," said his father, Gordon. Gordy Aamoth also loved parties and how he looked. "Every situation was more fun when Gordy was there," said his mother, Mary. "He was always beautifully put together."

Despite entreaties to consider returning to Minneapolis, Gordy Aamoth was determined to stay in New York, even if it was far from his family. "He loved New York," his father said. "He often said, 'You had to know it to love it, and most people don't.' " But there will be a touch of Gordy Aamoth at home. His high school, the Blake School, has decided to name its new football field the Gordy Aamoth Memorial Stadium.
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My family used to subscribe to the Sunday NY Times back in 2001/2002. For over a year after 911 the NY Times included a couple of pages of these memorial bios every Sunday. It was sad how long the "Portraits of Grief" series ran. There were a lot of victims.

 
I read this quote which I found very interesting that could answer some questions on why few people chose to jump 90 floors to their death,

Years ago, Frederick says, a colleague of his set up an experiment where he subjected laboratory animals to excruciating pain. They could go into another chamber to escape the pain, but if they did they would get their heads chopped off. Other lab animals were allowed to observe this, so they knew what would happen. They, too, were placed in the pain chamber. They leaped out of it, into the killing one. "The urge to escape the pain," says Frederick, "overrode everything else."
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9/11 changed me and I still remember to this day the horror of watching everything. What has followed is an interest in everything that happened. When the History channel runs a special on 9/11, I am glued to the TV. It made me a stronger patriot but it also opened my eyes to the idea we are not as safe as we hope.

 
I will never understand how a human can hate another human so much to want to kill them. I mean, don't get me wrong, there are people I don't get along with, but I have never HATED anyone. And especially hate them to the point Id want them dead. I guess this line of thinking is why Id never make it as a soldier. The thought of killing someone, no matter what they have done, eats at my insides. It would be something Id never get over, ever.

With that being said, I know we have soldiers on the board and I appreciate everything you guys do. And this post was directed at terrorists hating people so much, not soldiers, sorry if their was any confusion.

 
Po Belini said:
I will never understand how a human can hate another human so much to want to kill them. I mean, don't get me wrong, there are people I don't get along with, but I have never HATED anyone. And especially hate them to the point Id want them dead. I guess this line of thinking is why Id never make it as a soldier. The thought of killing someone, no matter what they have done, eats at my insides. It would be something Id never get over, ever.

With that being said, I know we have soldiers on the board and I appreciate everything you guys do. And this post was directed at terrorists hating people so much, not soldiers, sorry if their was any confusion.
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I'm an exsoldier I didn't take any offense to this at all and i'm sure most if not all soldiers would. Soldiers know being in the service regardless of branch is not an easy job for many reasons. The one you touched on taking someone elses life is just one of those reasons.

What really makes me sad and angry over all of this is the fact all of those innocent people lost their lives because we touched the soil of Saudi Arabia in the 90's.

 
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Jonathan Eric BrileyEvery morning, Jonathan Eric Briley watched the sunrise from New York City's highest peak — the north tower's 110th floor, where he was the audio-visual technician for Windows on the World. "He'd tell me," said Gwendolyn Briley- Strand, his sister, "there was nothing like it."

Sunrises were one of Mr. Briley's many loves. Others were music, the Lord and the First Baptist Church of Elmsford, N.Y. As a boy, he played gospel music on the piano. Later, he taught himself guitar and learned jazz and rock as well. Last year, he was ordained a deacon at First Baptist — a job, said Mrs. Briley-Strand, for a humble and helpful man. He drove his father, the Rev. Alexander Briley, the pastor, to church, helped him into his robes and visited the hospital and homes of the sick and grieving. "He was," said his wife, Hillary, "one of a kind."

The Tuesday after Labor Day, he nipped down to Florida for a week with his sisters. "All we did," said Mrs. Briley-Strand, "was watch the sun rise. We took our coffee with a little Kahlúa to the beach. We relaxed and cooked. We watched the sunrise. We watched it set. It was manna from heaven." LINK
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I was reading an article on 9/11 just now. It said that the Falling Man in the photo above might have been this guy. I still find it hard to believe that terrorists could hate our country so much that they'd do this.

 
Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red said:
I'm sure you've all already seen this that aired on Outside the Lines this past weekend. I'm not an emotional guy, but I had tears running down my face.

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Wow. That may be the most poignant segment I've ever seen. This is the guy in the red bandana:

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Welles Remy CrowtherIt is a quirk of human nature that the person who does an act of kindness may forget it, but the recipient does not. And so it was, that upon the loss of their 24-year- old son, Welles Remy Crowther, his parents, Alison and Jefferson Crowther of Upper Nyack, received a note. It referred to only a few moments in their son's life, high school moments at that, but it had stayed with another young man for years.

"Welles was a big player in ice hockey," Ms. Crowther said, "and he was skating with a younger kid and nobody was passing him the puck. Welles comes up to him and says, `Are you ready to score your first varsity goal?' He gets the puck, and passes it right to this kid and he scores his first goal."

Mr. Crowther was an equities trader with Sandler O'Neill & Partners, on the 104th floor of the south tower. He shared an apartment in Greenwich Village with his friend Chuck Platz, favored Hawaiian shirts for his evenings out. Mr. Crowther's mother speaks of her son's gallantry in escorting her to the opera. Mr. Platz cites a very different example: the night that Mr. Crowther, when a female friend had had too much to drink, put her over his shoulder and carried her up five flights.

A memorial service was held for Mr. Crowther on Saturday, but neither his parents nor his roommate have been able to clean out his room. "The bed is still unmade, the dent from his head is still there on the pillow, his clothes are still on the floor," Mr. Platz says. "Sometimes I hear somebody's key turn and I think, `Oh, Welles is home.' "
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