Here’s something a little different in the wake of the anniversary of the Twin Tower collapses on September 11 2001.

Remember that photo that provoked so much outrage and an outpouring of shock and horror around the world that self-censorship in media was launched? After the initial print, the photo was never seen published again.

In the years following the attacks, much have happened, and time may have passed and moved on, but the horror of that day still remains fresh in many people’s lives, especially to native New Yorkers and families of victims who worked or may have been in that building at the time.

The falling man is now seen as the icon, or the face of people who decided to choose how they were going to die at a desperate moment with no way out. For some, it was an act of bravery, a last act of defiance, and for others, it was a betrayal of love, of trust and of hope.

Esquire wrote a fairly long article on the falling man, one of more than 200 people who decided to take their lives that day into their own hands by jumping to their deaths.

It is a lengthy read, but a deserving one.