The central focus of the painting is the beginning of a white-light emerging from the ruins and thus the Angel of Light. The flag is red, white and blue and the surface of each of the three sections is covered with wire mesh and cracked glass. While broken, the surface is not as shattered and not protruding. The radiating lines are no longer blood-red, but a lighter color, which foretells better times to come. The frame is silver, representing a bright transition from the black frame of the Wounding of America. The edges of panels one and three are bending inward to show a softening from the square shape of the first work in the triptych. This is about the beginning of the emergence of America from our greatest tragedy.