Eliezer Jimenez Jr.

Filling In for a Co-Worker
Eliezer Jimenez Jr. was supposed to be on vacation that week, but his bosses at Windows on the World called him at home on Sunday, and asked if he would fill in that week for someone else. "My son was such a good worker, of course he said he would do it," said his father, Eliezer Jimenez.

The younger Mr. Jimenez had worked as a chef's assistant at the restaurant for less than two years. He had begun working there part time, his father said, while he worked at another restaurant in Midtown, because he needed the money to support his four children. When the other restaurant closed down, Mr. Jimenez went to work at Windows full time.

When he was not working, Mr. Jimenez, 37, was usually at his Disciples of Christ church. When he was 6, his mother died while giving birth. His father moved with his three sons to Puerto Rico, and they returned to New York a few years later. The younger Mr. Jimenez lived in Washington Heights with his wife and children. "He was my son, my friend, my everything," Mr. Jimenez said. "He was my firstborn. They have stolen him from me."