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Roberto Losada Maestre 
The dreadful 11-S terrorist attack was deeply endured by people of United States. Tragedy was experienced trough the sharp and powerful images live TV was issuing. People who saw that awful portrayal of reality, numbed in front of their TV sets, became terrified guess of the largest terrorist attack their country had ever suffered. As usual in this kind of situations, links with reality were cut and the whole nation needed to overcome the mourning phase to achieve the total restoration of normal life. Unfortunately, even if media coverage of the drama allowed people to accomplish the healing phase of taking conscience and responsibility about the facts, fear established its realm over United States population, so blocking the final triumph over drama through the restoration of safety feeling. Since humour appears only in an environment of safety, editorial cartoons could not show humour but melancholy. This work tries to explain how melancholy, which is intimately related with nationalism, came to be the way through which healing was pursued and how editorial cartoons manifested it.
