We spoke recently with the parents of Gavhar Kamoriddinova, a 26-year-old Uzbek woman who was among the nearly 3,000 people who died in the 9/11 attacks.
Her father, Muhammad, talked of the wrenching pain as his heart shrinks every year with the approach of September 11. "It's endless grief," he told our Uzbek Service. "Every anniversary, I recall the nightmare over and over. Hundreds of thoughts whirl in my head: What if she'd been somewhere else, instead of at the World Trade Center that day -- anywhere but those towers?"
"I see her image everywhere -- her voice rings in my ears," said her mother, Farida.
Their words are a reminder that alongside commemorations in the United States, parents like Gavhar's -- as well as brothers and sisters and indeed children -- in more than 90 countries around the world are mourning loved ones who died at the hands of the 9/11 attackers.
-- Andy Heil
Her father, Muhammad, talked of the wrenching pain as his heart shrinks every year with the approach of September 11. "It's endless grief," he told our Uzbek Service. "Every anniversary, I recall the nightmare over and over. Hundreds of thoughts whirl in my head: What if she'd been somewhere else, instead of at the World Trade Center that day -- anywhere but those towers?"
"I see her image everywhere -- her voice rings in my ears," said her mother, Farida.
Their words are a reminder that alongside commemorations in the United States, parents like Gavhar's -- as well as brothers and sisters and indeed children -- in more than 90 countries around the world are mourning loved ones who died at the hands of the 9/11 attackers.
-- Andy Heil