The 9/11 Circle of Death
It is a reference to an image that circulated in popular culture shortly after 9/11, looking down an urban residential street and seeing flags everywhere. Jones, who also publishes in El Nuevo Dia out of Puerto Rico, offered this cartoon for the magazine of the Hoover Institution, a politically-conservative think tank long-established at Stanford University. For that audience, the cartoon is a point on the circle, from that awful day in September until the reported death of Osama bin Laden. The cartoon speaks to community solidarity and a moment of comfort—letting our collective breath go, as such—upon learning that our great spectral enemy was no longer part of the formula.