{"id":8172,"date":"2012-01-02T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/?p=8172"},"modified":"2012-01-03T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T17:35:08","slug":"a-name-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/a-name-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"A Name to Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rep. Keith Ellison (MN-05) Testimony Before House Homeland Security Committee\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sv9wUSA-b6Y?start=745&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/02\/nyregion\/sept-11-memorial-obscures-a-police-cadets-bravery.html\"><em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a> that the placement of Mohammad Salman Hamdani&#8217;s name on the National September 11 Memorial obscures his bravery that day. Lauded by the mayor, police commissioner and other government officials, including Rep. Keith Ellison, as a hero for trying to save lives at the World Trade Center on 9\/11 before he died, 23-year-old Hamdani had been an EMT and a police cadet.<\/p>\n\n<p><!--more-->His remains were discovered in wreckage of the north tower but his name is not in the first responder list or the list of north tower victims. The memorial&#8217;s web site <a href=\"http:\/\/names.911memorial.org\/#lang=en_US&amp;page=person&amp;id=4946\">locates his name on a South Pool panel<\/a>\u00a0(the particular panel also includes the name of\u00a0Sneha Anne Philip\u00a0whose story appeared on SM&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/12\/closure_for_dr\/\">&#8220;Closure for Dr. Sneha Philip, 9\/11 Victim&#8221;<\/a>&#8211;after her name was removed and restored to an official list of victims). The <em>Times <\/em>describes the placement this way:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>&#8230;his name appears on the memorial\u2019s last panel for World Trade Center victims, next to a blank space along the south tower perimeter, with the names of others who did not fit into the rubrics the memorial created to give placements meaning. That section is for those who had only a loose connection, or none, to the World Trade Center.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=9AZOVLIqSuw\">Hamdani&#8217;s mother<\/a> feels strongly about the placement of her son&#8217;s name, and that it&#8217;s not on the official first responder list.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\u201cThey do not want anyone with a Muslim name to be acknowledged at ground zero with such high honors,\u201d his mother, Talat Hamdani, 60, said last week at her home in Lake Grove on Long Island, her voice filled with pain. \u201cThey don\u2019t want someone with the name Mohammad to be up there.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>NYPD did not include Hamdani on its list of fallen because as a cadet he was still a student and considered the equivalent of a paid college intern, according to its spokesperson. Mrs. Hamdani seems unsure of pressing the issue. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/02\/nyregion\/sept-11-memorial-obscures-a-police-cadets-bravery.html?pagewanted=2\">The article<\/a> ends with her thoughts on the name placement.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\u201cYou are equal no matter where you are buried, whether your name is there or not,\u201d Mrs. Hamdani recalled saying as she stood before his name and the memorial\u2019s pouring waterfalls on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. \u201cBy your actions the world remembers you.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times\u00a0reports that the placement of Mohammad Salman Hamdani&#8217;s name on the National September 11 Memorial obscures his bravery that day. Lauded by the mayor, police commissioner and other government officials, including Rep. Keith Ellison, as a hero &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/a-name-to-remember\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8172"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8201,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions\/8201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}