You would be so proud - by Shaun Usher - Letters of Note

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This Saturday will mark a decade since the September 11 attacks. Today's letter is taken from the book Letters of Note: New York.

Uhuru Houston was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department in 1993, and three years later married Sonya, whom he had met when they were both students at Norfolk State University. In 1999, he was assigned to the World Trade Center. On the morning of 11 September 2001, Uhuru Houston was one of seventy-two officers to die when terrorists hijacked four planes and flew them into the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon building in Virginia, and a field in Pennsylvania. He left behind Sonya and their two children, Hasani and Hannah.…

You would be so proud - by Shaun Usher - Letters of Note

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