Sara Low Symbolism

Sara Low was a 28 year old flight attendant whose life was cut short on Airline Flight 11 on September 11th 2001. All flight attendants are given airline wings and they show a symbol of pride for the people who wear them.Sara’s wings now symbolize whole new meaning for her family and have impacted the lives of many different people. The wings’ symbolism has changed dramatically over time. When Sara Low first got her wings it states in the article in paragraph 2 that her dad told a group of people at the memorial service that Sara felt so much pride in her wings with all of her training, qualifications and length of service, only to be cut short by her tragic death. Karyn Ramsey, who was Sara's roommate was also at the service. She detached the wings from her own uniform and pinned them on Sara's father, and that's when the journey of the wings started. All Sara’s hard work to receive the wings was what it symbolized to her and her family prior to 9/11. It was a pure, simplistic meaning that would soon be so much more. Now, after 9/11 they have a totally different meaning. It now symbolizes pride of living in the US and the strength of getting through 9/11. It also captures the sense that many pure lives were taken on that tragic day. The transfer of the wings is a great example of how meanings shift without the force of a specific event. The mean of things is different for everyone. For Mike Low, the father of Sara how it symbolizes her life and how hard she worked to be successful in life. For Karyn Ramsey is reminders her all of the times she had with Sara and what kind of …show more content…
Thousands of people were affected by the attacks in many different ways, whether they were on the plane like Sara, working in one of the towers, on the streets of New York City or even just knew someone who was directly affected. 9/11 was a day that shook all Americans and tested our ability to recover from attack on our pride and our