Clara Victorine Hinds, Rest in Peace

Clara Victorine Hinds was a talented seamstress at Windows on the World.   She’d been sewing most of her life and was able to sew a wedding dress at age 14.

She met her husband, Hubert, in Trinidad, married and moved to Queens, NY, to start and raise their family.

Clara had a positive outlook on life and appreciated the beauty around her.  Her husband described their 31 years of marriage as “heaven on earth”.  She was the cheerleader for her children at their sporting events.

Sadly, at age 52, Mrs. Hinds was lost in the terrorist attack of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

Eight years later, it is still difficult to believe the loss of life on that day.    Each year, I write a memorial for a least one of the deceased, and remember the moments of that day in disbelief.    There are many turning points in the course of human history.   This was one of the most poignant.

According to Wikipedia:  “Aside from the approximately 2,669 United States casualties, 329 foreign nationals (excluding the nineteen perpetrators) also perished in the attacks. By far the country with the largest loss of life was the United Kingdom, with 67 deaths (excluding the overseas territory of Bermuda). India had 41, South Korea had 28 and Canada and Japan had 24 each. Colombia had seventeen and Jamaica, Mexico and the Philippines had sixteen each. Australia and Germany had eleven each, while Italy had ten.”

The world changed that day.

Since then, many across the world have perished in the name of humanity and freedom.   God bless them all.

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