Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Insouciance











The indomitable American.

4 comments:

Oroborous said...

Hooah.

When death is inevitable, might as well go out as a lion.

erp said...

This picture is truly breathtaking. It reminds of some time back when a hostage was about to killed, he said, "Now I will show you how an Italian dies." Them pesky hormones some of you guys have in such abundance really do separate the men from the boys.

Hey Skipper said...

I had heard of, but never seen, that picture before.

Even six years later, it is amazing how quick fury is to surface.

joe shropshire said...

Skipper: you may be interested in this essay by Tom Junod, in Esquire magazine , of all places:

The Falling Man

In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it.

Read the whole thing, as they say.