On a day of great calamity and misfortune, the American people endure through their darkest hours where life, as they know it, was forever altered. In the article “We’ll go forward from this moment”, published on September 12, 2001, in the Miami Herald, the author, Leonard Pitts Jr., converses about the heinous terrorist attack that occurred on September 11, 2001. Pitts’s main purpose was to inform and provide words that help make clear for the unsettled American people, which at the moment was the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. Pitts engages the use of the tone of pride and empowerment to express how the people felt and how they will persevere after the terrorist attack. In his article, Pitts commences