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September 11, 2008, 11:11 A.M.
How do you choose who to remember? I thought about it for quite a while, and decided to go for a representation from the WTC, Pentagon, each of the planes, and the rescue workers. Because I picked these people from names on a list, my information varies. I�ve included what I could.
WTC
Jupiter Yambem, a banquet manager for Windows on the World.
A native of Manipur, in northeast India, he had made his home in Beacon, New York, along with his wife Nancy and son Santi.
He was involved in community activities in Beacon, was active in environmental groups, and belonged to the Beacon Sloop Club. He also helped out with his son�s soccer team. He co-founded the North American Manipur Association, seeking to preserve his homeland's culture, traditions, music and food.
Pentagon
LTC Dennis M. Johnson
U.S. Army
LTC Dennis M. Johnson, 48, of Port Edwards, WI, and a graduate of John Edwards High School in Port Edwards and UW-Stevens Point, was killed Sep. 11, 2001, when hijacked American Airlines flight 77 was crashed into the Pentagon during the September 11 terrorist attack on America. Johnson was assigned to the Army staff at the Pentagon.
AA Flight 11
David Seima Aoyama, 48, of Culver City, Calif.
Worked for SGI-USA, a Buddhist association headquartered in Santa Monica. Aoyama was born in Hokkaido, Japan, and came to the United States in 1977. He left a wife and two teenage children.
AA Flight 77
James Debeuneure, 58, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was a fifth-grade teacher at Ketcham Elementary School in Washington.
Sarah Clark, 65, of Columbia, Maryland, was a sixth-grade teacher at Backus Middle School in Washington.
Hilda E. Taylor was a sixth-grade teacher at Leckie Elementary School in Washington.
Bernard C. Brown, 11, was a student at Leckie Elementary School in Washington.
Rodney Dickens, 11, was a student at Leckie Elementary School in Washington.
Asia Cottom, 11, was a student at Backus Middle School in Washington.
They were on an educational trip to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society.
UA Flight 175
Ronald Gamboa, 33, his partner, Daniel Brandhorst 42, and their son, David Brandhorst, 3, all of Los Angeles, were taking one of their frequent family trips. Gamboa managed three Gap stores in Santa Monica, Calif. Brandhorst was a lawyer.
UA Flight 93
Christian Adams, a 37-year-old husband and father from Biebelsheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, was flying to San Francisco for a wine-tasting event as part of his job as director of export for German Wine Institute. Christian Adams left behind a wife, Silke; son, Lukas; and daughter, Theresa.
Response and Rescue
Yamel Merino, 24, of Yonkers, N.Y., was an emergency medical technician with Metro Care Ambulance. Metro Care EMT of the year in 1999, a friend and colleague described her as follows: ``When a textbook says, `This is the perfect EMT,' that's what Yamel was.� Ms. Merino was killed in the collapse of the first World Trade Center tower, as she was helping the injured nearby. She left behind a son, Kevin.
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