During the September 11 attacks in New York City, 2,996 people were killed and more than 6,000 others were wounded, 411 of which, emergency services workers. Now one would think— on the anniversary of such a tragic day—first responders would honor their fallen brothers and sisters in the place where they had fallen. In ‘No Firemen at Ground Zero This 9/11?” written by Michael Burke he addresses that the men and women who served at Ground Zero on 9/11 will not be welcome to attend the memorial held there on the 10th anniversary. He addresses the readers of the Wall Street Journal to get a rise out of them, and make the change he is hoping for; allow the first responders their due and proper honor. In order to do this Burke prominently used loaded diction, pathos, and a strategic order to his commentary.…show more content… The first way Burke does this is stating: “ When they arrived at the base of the towers, there were jumpers by the score. Two firefighters, terribly, were struck. “There is no other way to put it,” an EMS who witnessed it said, “they Exploded.”” When writing this paragraph he does not put it lightly. Burke gets straight to the point with vivid words. Immediately, this gets the reader emotionally engaged in what he is writing;showing how heart wrenching 9/11 really was. Another way he hits the reader with vivid word is the fourth paragraph. He adds: “ Outside the bodies rained down.” He could have said something less vivid, but instead uses the grotesque description. Burke uses weighted diction to reveal what firefighters went through as well as the rest of the victims of
