Sunday, September 10, 2006

Remembering the migrants
who died on 9/11

"Los Latinos tambien lloran Septiembre 11"

Five years later, a list of those who died at the World Trade Center reveals undocumented voices silenced.
Their family members will only know they disappeared after crossing the border to enter the United States, but will ignore they died at the scene of an attack that shaked the world into a new era.
The memory of a multitude of Rodriguez, Gonzalez, and Gomez, whose dreams were buried in the rubble reveal the tales of the 20th century migrant in New York City:



THE HERO

Before becoming a firefighter, Sergio Villanueva, 33, of Argentina, spent eight years as a police officer in New York, and was engaged to be married.

THE CITIZEN

Sonia Morron, a Colombian migrant, told the New York Times her husband Jorge Morron, a security guard at the World Trade Center, was scheduled to attend a swearing ceremony to become an American citizen on Sept. 17th.

THE DREAMER

Rosa Villalba, a Chilean migrant, told the New York Times that after years of work Obdulio Ruiz-Diaz, a Chilean architect, had finally purchased the home of their dreams on Sept. 6. His wife and three kids moved in on Sept. 14th.

THE OVERACHIEVER

Alissa Torres, told the New York Times her husband Colombian born Luis Eduardo Torres, 31, was starting his new job as a senior broker at Cantor Fitzgerald. This was a dream come true for a young man, who had walked the Mexican border illegally into the U.S. in the 1980s, and had struggled to learn to speak English

Visit http://www.legacy.com/Sept11.asp?Page=SearchResults&Location=WTC to read their profiles.

Posted by a bilingual skeptic at 2:24 PM | | Comments