Alright, let’s talk about them Bolivar Arellano 9/11 photos. Now, I ain’t no fancy city person, just an old woman, but even I know about that terrible day, 9/11. It was on the TV, all them buildings falling down, smoke everywhere. Scary stuff, I tell ya.
This Bolivar fella, he was there, takin’ pictures. Not like them phone pictures young folks take nowadays, no sir. He had a real camera, a 35mm one they say. He was a photographer for somethin’ called the “Post,” whatever that is. Sounds important though.
He took a picture, a real famous one, of a man fallin’ from the towers. Can you imagine seein’ that with your own eyes? Terrible, just terrible. The picture shows the man fallin’, and you can even see other people in the windows above, all that smoke around them. It’s a sad, sad picture.
They say that day, 9/11, took the lives of 3,000 people. That’s a whole lotta folks gone just like that. Can’t even wrap my head around it. Even now, years and years later, people still talk about it, still remember. And these pictures, Bolivar’s pictures, they help us remember.
- He wasn’t just takin’ pictures from far away, no. He was right there, at somethin’ they call “Ground Zero.” That’s where them towers fell. Brave man, I’d say, bein’ in all that mess.
- And it wasn’t just him takin’ pictures. He met up with a firefighter, David Rodriguez, and a woman named Rose Foti later on. Guess they wanted to see the pictures too, or maybe they were in them. Don’t rightly know.
They talk about Bolivar’s pictures bein’ “stirring.” I guess that means they make you feel somethin’, make you think. And they do, they do. You see that man fallin’, and you think about all them people lost, all the families hurtin’. It ain’t just a picture, it’s a story, a sad one.
September 11th terrorist attack, that’s what they call it. Terrorists, bad people, did somethin’ awful. And Bolivar, he captured it all with his camera. The fire, the smoke, the fallin’ man, all of it. It’s important to remember, they say, so it don’t happen again. I hope they’re right.
I saw some other things they wrote about the pictures. Said it was a “tragedy.” Well, yeah, no kiddin’. Three thousand people dead, that’s a tragedy alright. They said the pictures were taken in New York City, big city, lots of tall buildings. Guess that’s why them terrorists picked it.
Some of Bolivar’s pictures are in a gallery now. That’s like a museum, but for pictures, I think. People go there to look at ’em, to remember. And that’s good, rememberin’ is important. Even though it’s sad, we gotta remember.
This whole thing, it makes me think about how precious life is. One minute you’re here, the next you’re gone. Just like that man in the picture. Breaks my heart, it does. But them pictures, they help us remember him, and all the others lost that day. Bolivar Arellano, he did somethin’ important, showin’ the world what happened.
They keep callin’ it “Photo, Print, Drawing [Man falling from the World Trade Center tower during the September 11th terrorist attack, New York City] / Bolivar Arellano.” That’s a mouthful, ain’t it? Just a picture of a man fallin’, but it tells a whole story, a story of a terrible day.
And even now, years later, they’re still showin’ these pictures. They had a tenth anniversary, and they showed the best pictures, the most “stirring” ones, like they said. Bolivar’s picture, the one of the fallin’ man, I bet that was one of ‘em. It’s a picture that stays with you, you know?
So, them Bolivar Arellano 9/11 photos, they’re more than just pictures. They’re a reminder, a way to remember what happened, a way to honor them folks that were lost. And that’s important, real important. Don’t ever forget that, y’hear?
