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U.S. President Barack Obama shakes the hand of Beverly Eckert, the wife of a 9/11 victim. Eckert died in the Continental Connection Flight 3407 crash one week after this photo was taken.
Reason
Good EV picture of a chilling and coincidental irony
Articles this image appears in
Continental Connection Flight 3407, Beverly Eckert
Creator
White House (Pete Souza)
Time Requirement
checkY Added 15 February 2009. ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 05:33, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes the hand of Beverly Eckert, the wife of a 9/11 victim. Eckert died in the Continental Connection Flight 3407 crash one week after this photo was taken. As a non-American, the many ironies of this image struck me. The obvious airplane collides with building connection. The handshake from the new President Obama immediately prior to her death and the fact that 9/11 happened so early in G.W. Bush's Presidency. The image seems to capture the human fatal tragic reality of 9/11 and links it to this, what I suppose could be termed a comparatively much more minor but nonetheless horrific, incident as well as involving arguably the most important political figure in the world today.


Promoted Image:Obama and Beverly Eckert.jpg ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 02:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]