In Memory of Hector Tamayo

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I am from the UK, and I can remember watching the horrid events on television when I was merely 3 years old, 10 years from then, our family went to america for vacation, the first place I wanted to go was New York,to pay my respects to the many brave people who died on 9/11, like someone else who commented, I went to the memorial museum and purchased a bracelet, the name on it was Hector Tamayo. I looked you up and found loads of info about you and how you were a normal citizen as anyone else in the country, I may not know you, but I wear that bracelet in memory and I wish all of the best for your family, and may you rest up there in peace.

*** Posted by Rob Warneck on 2011-09-12 ***

Hector,

10 years. Think about you alot. Miss you alot. I will never forget you. It was a very tough day watching the memorials on TV. Did alot of crying today. I always will when I think about you being gone because of a senseless tragedy. With Love from your fiend and partner Bill

*** Posted by Anonymous on 2011-09-11 ***

Hector, I will be praying for you and your family.

*** Posted by Ms Cortez on 2011-09-07 ***

Uncle Hector,

We still miss you after all these years. I'd like to let you know that the giants are playing well, but not as well as we would have hoped for. Alan and Ian both tried to take over your and my dad's league spots, but to be honest, they are not as good as you both in their picks. :-)

Pamie and Auntie Evelyn are doing great. You should be proud, especially of Ian. He is one of my best friends.

I know in my heart that you and my dad are hanging out up there in that great beyond, singing a song. Please relay all these things to him. Our love always....

*** Posted by Jackie C. on 2010-10-04 ***

Hector,

I missed talking to your daughter on 9/11 this year, as I was on a driving vacation with Marlene. I understand that she stepped up to the podium at the ceremonies to pay tribute to you. I will never forget 9/11/2001, and I will never forget you, my friend and colleague. When I get to heaven one of my first questions will be why you had to leave us so soon. It is only through God's miracle that I am writing this: The pancreatic cancer that I was diagnosed with in August of 2008 is gone, and I have been out of treatment since May of 2009. There are no odds with God. It is all in his plan. I miss you, my friend.

*** Posted by Anonymous on 2010-09-26 ***

Dear Uncle/Cousin Hector Tamayo,

Hello Uncle, it's Wesley Yabut, youngest child and son of Rodolfo and Noemi Yabut. Unfortunately, my father, Rodolfo, passed away a little more than 2 years after you passed. Even though I barely know who you were nor shared many good times, but your reflection is in your children. So in a way, I can see what a wonderful person you were by just knowing Pammie and Ian. I know it wasn't your choice to pass by you were an unnecessary death. You were murdered in a terrorist attack. I wish I could visit the site where you and many other victims suffered their last breath, but it is just inaccessible for now. But in the future, I will visit you especially on your death anniversary, I give you my word.

Your family is doing well. Ian is helping Pammie and Auntie Lyn to endure through the rest of their lives sans you. You don't have to worry about them. As for me, I think about 9/11 and New Year's Eve all the time. Two shocking deaths happened on those days. Seeing many people cry over two different people is one of the worst feelings to go through. I remember my father and how he took your passing. He was devastated and I am sure you would have been if he passed before you. That is why I want to be in law enforcement. I know I can't prevent murders, but I can give the victims' families closure. We live in a crazy real world and anything can happen. The best thing I can do is to endure and live through it. Life is hard especially sans you and my father. I wish I knew you more than I do now. I hope you can see how much I have grown from the last time we saw each other. I am currently a 21-year old man still in school preparing for the real world. I know with you and my father's guidance I can make it. Thank you for Pammie and Ian. They are wonderful relatives and truly am glad that they are in my lives. I will do you and my father a favor and that is I will live my life. I will never forget either of you. Keep each other company. I love you both.

LOVE,

Wesley Yabut

*** Posted by Wesley Yabut on 2010-09-11 ***

Hector,

I spoke to your lovely daughter Pam today! She assured me that she, Ian and Evelyn are doing well. I know how proud you were of your children. And I know how proud you would be of them now with all they are accomplishing even while being broken hearted that you are not here with them. Marlene and I think of you often. I tell my friends and business associates about you, a man of integrity that loved his family. You see a man who left a legacy like you did lives on in the hearts and souls of the people who shared his life. I am honored to have been a small part of yours. I have been in a life and death fight with pancreatic cancer since last August, but I am winning right now as I am in remission. God bless you and your family my friend until we meet again in Heaven.

Love, Bill

*** Posted by Bill Balbach on 2009-09-11 ***

Although I never knew Hector, I was assigned to do a report on him, and I will try to do the best memorial that I can for him and his family. God bless him and his family.

*** Posted by Michael Quinn on 2009-09-09 ***

I am English, resident in the UK, and remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when the dreadful news reached us about the WTC. In the last two years I have visited New York City three times and have paid my respects at Ground Zero on each visit. I have just returned from my third visit, during which I visited the National Memorial exhibition. It is a wonderful tribute to all who were victims of this dreadful atrocity, to their families, and to all the rescue workers. Whilst there, I bought a memorial bracelet. Each one of these is different and remembers an individual victim. The purchaser does not know who it is until opening the packaging. Mine is for Hector Tamayo. Although I didn't know him, I wear the bracelet in tribute and in the hope that such an atrocity will never happen again. I hope Hector's family reads this and knows that someone in England remembers him daily. "Tears flow, but the courage lives on." Terrorism will never win.

*** Posted by Rowena Palmer on 2008-12-02 ***

My thoughts and prayers are with your family.

*** Posted by Kathleen on 2008-03-30 ***

Hector,

It still seems so impossible that you are gone. Impossible that I was privileged to speak at your memorial service 5 years ago. I think about you often. I cleaned out our condo in NY last November and found the documents that we executed for our new business. I remember coming to the Trade Center in August of 2001 to have you sign those documents, and we dreamed of what our business would be like. I wonder often about that and about how much better we would have gotten to know each other. We worked together 13 years yet we were always so busy. I learned things about you from your family that I did not know. We never had the time to learn many things about each other. You and I both loved to play the guitar and love the Bee Gees and the Beatles. I only found out today 10/29/06 that one of your favorite songs was “Today” by John Denver. Me, too. I have been playing that song and singing it since before we met back in 1988. You are gone too soon, my friend. I think about Evelyn, Ian and Pam all the time, how they moved on without you. I spoke to Pam on 9/11/06 after seeing her place your photo at ground zero. I know that you were a good planner, and I know that you were a wonderful husband and father. You left them an incredible legacy, and I know that their hearts are full of the love they have for you and the love that you gave them. I know that I thanked you before, but thank you for being so kind to my wife when you did our home renovation. She is so glad that she got to know you. I still struggle with the fact that I asked you to come work at the Vanderbilt group and that you ultimately ended up doing that job in the Trade Center. When I go to the Lord about it, I take comfort that this was part of his plan for your life. The Bible says that even before we are born God knows when we will be born and when we will return to be with him. It is so very hard to understand on a human level. You and I joked about how we had our entire life ahead of us to do our business together and it was not in his plan for us to even get started. I know that I will see you again in heaven and that you will assure me that the instant that you passed into eternal life you were at total peace. I love you and respect you, my friend, and you live on in my heart and my family’s hearts and our conversations.

Bill

*** Posted by Bill Balbach on 2006-10-29 ***

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