Archive for September 11th, 2006
9-11 : One Date – Multiple Tragedies
10:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Chile|history|New York City|Politics · 2 Comments
11 Sep 2006
Part of the personal struggle I deal with on 9-11 is the straddling of grief and confronting the egocentrism that is United States culture. In general people in the United States have short term memory. Selectively people remember and claim dates and tragedies as if they belonged to no one else before them. 9-11 is one of those dates.
Five years ago today I was on my way to my job in the financial district of Manhattan, blocks away from the World Trade Center. A man came into the subway at one point yelling something about planes hitting the Twin Towers. As one of a trainful of jaded New Yorkers, I ignored him. As long as the subways were still running , nothing was really wrong.
9-11-01 – Remembering the Forgetten Victims
7:30 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events|Immigration|New York City · Comments Off
11 Sep 2006
The majority of tributes today will be paid to those firefighters, police officers, and other civil servants who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. But there were many victims who perished that day who are not remembered. Some of those unaccounted for were undocumented who died and who have not been acknowledged and whose dependents have not been in any way recognized or compensated.
Additionally many hundreds of undocumented workers were employed for the clean-up and decontamination of ground zero and surrounding community. With the recent reports of just how dangerous health conditions were in the World Trade Center area following the attacks, one has to wonder how many undocumented workers are suffering because of exposure to toxic air and debris.
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