(ANSA) – NEW YORK, JUN 30 – The latest missing victim in the wall of remembrance in New York for the 9/11 terrorist attacks has a face. Antonio Dorsey Pratt’s portrait hangs in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, among thousands of others. Pratt, 43, was an employee of the Cantor Fitzgerald restaurant on the 101st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. After about 16 years, the project to commemorate the thousands of people killed in the 2001 attacks ended.
Pratt’s portrait was recovered thanks to Voices Center for Resilience, an organization started after 9/11 with the aim of remembering all the victims. According to Alice Greenwald, CEO of the memorial and museum, it took a lot of investigative work to recover the latest images as well as the help of several partners to make sure everyone who died in the tragedy could be honored. Pratt’s portrait appears slightly blurred so that the center of the photo is her face. She requested digitizing and editing work from a paper photo in which she was with another person.
The wall of remembrance inside the Lower Manhattan Memorial and Museum, where the Twin Towers once stood, commemorates the victims who died on September 11, 2001 after four suicide bombings by the terrorist organization Al Qaeda. Two planes crashed in New York, one into the Pentagon headquarters and another in Somerset County in Pennsylvania. The portraits of the six people killed in the attack on the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993 are also posted on the wall. The names of the victims are instead carved along two large fountains placed where the Twin Towers were. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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