Emotionally Charged

I know I already used an image from the twin towers for another assignment but I was really thinking for a long time about an emotionally charged image and after like, all week, this came to mind and I thought, well, how perfect! I can't think of anything that could be more emotionally charged than the image of the towers either before or after 9/11.

Images like these represent SO many things. This image is now one of the ultimate symbols of patriotism. I would assume that when most people look at it they automatically associate it with any number of things like thinking anti-terrorism or mourning the loss of people who died that day or even of all the aftermath it has caused even to this day of family members who are over seas. Some people probably still see it and think of being scared to fly.

I can more than bet that when people see this image they think about what they were doing when 9/11 happened. I was getting ready to go to school way back in the 7th grade when I saw it on the news. It probably reminds some people who survived from the buildings and the emergency crews of how scared they were and basically...I think this is a perfect example of something very emotionally charged because anywhere you see this image I can guarantee that anyone old enough to remember the day will associate it with some sort of feeling or memory.

For me, personally, I know it might sound a little selfish but, when I see the twin towers, I think of my mom, who passed away two years ago, but 9/11 was her birthday and she always used to say oh well, my birthday was just another day anyways, but too bad something like that had to happen on it.