And the mourning for the immigrants with families, but without glamorous jobs, would be done in near anonymity.Īnd so the excruciating effort to fully document the dead that has gone on since last Tuesday, so far only modestly successful, will be all the more difficult when it comes to the universe of people who worked at the trade center's margins or inhabited its huge informal economy. And the most prominent would be mourned with much eloquence.īut in the self-contained city that the trade center truly was, there were also many people - undocumented immigrant deliverymen and Albanian window washers, Polish maintenance workers and single men and women without close family - who may not appear on formal personnel records or whose absence might simply not register with enough people that someone would come forward to search. Determining who was missing among them after the terrorist attack, however painful, would not be that hard. Most of the people listed as missing in the twin towers disaster were part of the World Trade Center's life as an elite corporate community.
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