September 11, 2007-Of artwork and remembrances

Many of you are new readers since this time last year, so you might not have read the post I wrote about Ryan’s art class assignment from June, 2006 and how he created an amazing tribute to September 11th without really meaning to. You see, his art teacher had been teaching them about Japanese art, and about Haiku, and how traditionally, Haikus are about seasons. The art class assignment was to make up a Haiku about their favorite season, using words that reminded them of that season, and illustrate it.

This was Ryan’s:

On the left, the Haiku:

Time to rake the leaves
Time to remember the brave
Red, yellow, and brown.

I was stunned. Remember, this was the end of THIRD GRADE for him. He was five on 9/11, and I talked a lot to him about what had happened because it was on every TV channel and he was curious. What amazes me about this Haiku was the unintentional double meaning-the “Red, yellow, and brown” can refer both to the colors of the leaves and to the multi-nationality of the victims of the attack, AND to the multi-nationality of the firefighters and other rescue and service personnel that worked so hard for so many days to look for victims and restore the city to some sort of normalcy, AND to the multi-nationality of the brave soldiers who are keeping our country safe. (I don’t want to have a war argument. Every soldier that has been sent to Iraq or Afghanistan is brave in my eyes.)

And now, a remembrance. New bloggers might not have come across the posts that 2,996 bloggers wrote last year as part of a huge project to remember every victim of the September 11th attack. Every person on every plane including the flight crews, every person identified as having been in one of the World Trade Center buildings who died, and then other tributes were added to the original list to include police, firefighters and military personnel who also died that day or after. The final list for 2006 has three thousand, two hundred and seventy seven people. I hope you will take some time to look through it.

However, there are people on the original list that did not have a blogger tribute last year. One of those people is Luis Clodoaldo Revilla-Mier. I found his page on Legacy.com, and I would like to honor him here.

Luis Clodoaldo Revilla – Mier
World Trade Center

Luis Clodoaldo Revilla Mier was born on August 19, 1947. He was 54 years old. He lived at 1074 Mile Square Rd, Yonkers, N.Y. 10704. He worked for Washington Group International Inc, as a Computer Designer Level III, for 26 years, at Two World Trade Center Building, 91st floor. Luis is survived by his wife, Nancy Revilla.

I am so sorry to Mrs. Revilla on the loss of her husband, and to his family as well. I don’t think this will ever stop being a sad day for me, but I can’t possibly understand how someone like Mrs. Revilla feels today. My heart goes out to her.

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