ESQUIRE: The Falling Man. “Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.”

After September 11, the media took great pains to avoid things that might arouse Americans to excessive anger. Which makes sense. After all, it’s not as if the people who brought down the two towers were George Zimmerman, or a rodeo clown.