Land of the Dead

Some may say that the play by Neil LaBute that premiered less than a year after 9/11 may have gone too far; however, I disagree. In order to really get the message that the author was trying to portray—a message that states that not everyone who was killed on 9/11 was a hero, the boundaries needed to be prodded. The firefighters, EMTS, police, and others who came to the scene were heroes. They gave their lives in order to protect and save as many others as they could. The people in the building were just going on and about their lives, not necessarily doing anything particularly spectacular. While it is a tragedy that they died, they should be viewed as victims. They went to work. They did what they were supposed to be doing, nothing extraordinary. Not everyone who died on 9/11 was a hero. A play on this subject matter is necessary because it helps people remember the lives that were lost as well as the unification that the country underwent, even if it was only for a short period of time.