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Ivhan Luis Carpio Bautista

Windows on the World 

Ivhan Luis Carpio Bautista moved to the United States - and to New York City - from Peru in 1999.  He began working at Windows on the World, the restaurant that occupied the 106th and 107th floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.   He was at work on September 11, 2001 when American Airlines Flight 11 was flown into the North Tower by the murderous cowards who had hijacked it that morning after it departed from Boston's Logan Airport, bisecting the building between the 93rd and 99th floors.  

He was just twenty-four years old when he was killed on that terrible Tuesday morning.  September 11 was, in fact, his birthday.  It was also his day off.  However, when a co-worker telephoned him on the night of September 10 and asked Ivhan if he could cover the co-worker's Tuesday morning shift, he jumped at the chance.  At twenty-four, his paycheck not only was for him but also was for his extended family back in Peru.  

Tragically, he died one day after learned he had been accepted into John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  Prior to moving to New York, he had completed two and one-half years of law school in Peru.  He had been pleased to learn that John Jay had accepted the credits he had earned at his Peruvian law school.  

Glen Burtnik & Friends "Window on the World"

Asbury Park, New Jersey - October 18, 2020

-AK