Example of Jingoism in New York City
Example of Jingoism in New York City
The article that I have cut out of the newspaper relates to jingoism. In Battery Park, New York, there have been tents set up for the mourning of the firefighters, police men, and EMT’s that lost their lives during the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers. This article relates to jingoism because people go to this shrine to mourn for people that they never knew. In the tents people placed stuffed animals, letters, framed pictures that have words on them, letters of good bye, and candles. Plans for a permanent memorial for the victims of the attack are still in their earliest stages. People go to this temporary memorial to pray for the people who have died, most that go do not have a loved one who died in the attacks. This shows much respect for the men and women who have died in the attacks.
The beginning of this article talks about how a man named Joe Tuozzo looked at the shrine of firemen, and that he looked over the display carefully, but he didn’t recognize any of them. He remembered some of the faces from when he was running down the steps when the buildings were hit, but he didn’t see any of them return. He was paying his respects to these men and women who died during his lunch break. He also survived the 1993 terrorist bombing of the Twin Towers, and when he saw the firemen coming up the steps he felt that he had a pretty good chance of getting out, even though he still grieved over the firemen and women who lost their lives.