There are all sorts of politics going on with the half billion dollar budget for a memorial for victims of 911. I do not know of any official memorial being planned for the undocumented workers who died that day on 911 at the World Trade Center. They were forgotten and not seen in life; the same in death.
Dia De La Muerta, Day of the Dead, is an important national, cultural and historical ritual day in the Republic of Mexico to honor the dead.
Over here in Mexico Town in Staten Island, word is that as many as 500 amigos disappeared that day. And I know from history that numbers get changed over time. If you think of two hundred floors and tasks ranging from cleaning people to wait staff in fast food cubbie holes all over the WTC, that the number five hundred does not sound too out of line with a real statistical figure regarding this matter.
Of course, the Anglo world and the Anglo press and most important of all the Anglo bureaucrats with five hundred million US dollars to spend on fountains and plaques - I know of no plaque that is being planned for undocumented aliens who died anonymously in that tragic murderous killing field by Saudi citizens on that infamous day.
This is of course a minor historic foot note mentioning what they say over in Mexico Town in Staten Island. The truth is out there somewhere as they used to say onthe X files.
Come November, the departed amigos and amigas will once again be dutifully remembered in MexTown S.I.NY if no place else.
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