It can never be proven with certainty, but most people think The Falling Man was a man by the name of Johnathan Briley.
RIP to all 9/11 victims. I will never forget.
Why the fuck would he want that?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 13, 2025 3:08 PM |
Why did you link to a Reddit thread that has no mention of Elton John "owning" this photo?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 13, 2025 3:55 PM |
Such a haunting photo.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 13, 2025 4:19 PM |
And it seems to me
You lived your life
Like a man falling upside-down in the wind...
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 13, 2025 4:27 PM |
Never having
a thing to cling to
before the ground set in...
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 13, 2025 4:31 PM |
I would have liked to know you,
But you weren't famous enough while alive...
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 13, 2025 4:33 PM |
Like R2 said, the Reddit thread only debates the identity of the jumper, and has no mention of Elton John. Where’s the link for that tidbit, OP?
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 13, 2025 4:35 PM |
And now I can say I own you
with only just a bid
On the mantel or propped up on the floor
next to furniture century-mid.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 13, 2025 4:42 PM |
Your body flattened long before
Your legend ever did.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 13, 2025 4:44 PM |
R7 Look it up yourself you filthy cunt. I came across the Elton John trivia after reading about 9/11 tributes. Sir John owns the largest collection of 9/11 photos there is, including this photo. I’m jealous. Then I remembered my obsession with the falling man. This is DL not The NY Times.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 13, 2025 4:47 PM |
Elton has a brilliant and enormous photo collection worth tens of millions.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 13, 2025 4:50 PM |
As I get older, one of the most important things I see about having kids is never having to clean out your house of absolutely everything you have ever owned before you die.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 13, 2025 4:57 PM |
R12 Sometimes most of your children die before you.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 13, 2025 5:04 PM |
That’s why you have spares.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 13, 2025 5:08 PM |
I would have liked to know you but there was just a splat.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 13, 2025 5:10 PM |
OP called me a “filthy cunt” because he can’t properly link a thread. OP is triggered.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 13, 2025 5:14 PM |