¶ … age of political correctness, there are those who are attempting to rewrite history into something that never happened. One such case is the statue commemorating the firefighters of September 11th. (Windle, 2002) The Fire Department of New York City is planning to erect a 19-foot bronze statue at its Brooklyn headquarters in honor of the 343 firefighters who died on September 11th. This statue is receiving criticism among several groups throughout the city.

The statue is "based on the famous photograph of three firefighters raising the American flag on the rubble at the World Trade Center site (Windle, 2002)." The three firefighters in the photo are white, but the statue...

e has been changed to depict one white man, one Hispanic man and one black man (Windle, 2002).
Political Correctness

Some of the firefighters and their families are upset by the statue and look at it as the city's way to rewrite history by attempting to be politically correct.

The idea to change the statue is being defending by "the Fire Department, the artists who made the statue and the property-management company that owns the department headquarters building (Windle, 2002)." The Fire Department feels that since all races and ethnicities died in the attacks, no one group should be honored.

Firefighters, however, feel this isn't a racial matter and…