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Alok Mehta Obituary
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Hello, my family and I visited NYC this summer and I was able to capture this image. Thought you would enjoy it!
David Turner
February 3, 2018
Alok Mehta, received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado State University in 2000 with an Economics major and Biochemistry minor
Betty Blanco
September 12, 2016
Alok Kumar Mehta, 23, an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald, 1st Tower WTC
Betty Blanco
September 12, 2016
Sandra Collier
September 9, 2016
Alok was in my English 11 class at Huntsville High School the very first year I taught for Huntsville City Schools. I found him to be a truly wonderful young man, full of posibility and positivity. He was very intelligent and certainly should have been in an advanced Englih 11 class, but chose to take advanced chemistry which was taught at the same time period. So, lucky me, I had the JOY of knowing and teaching him!
Alok was well liked by his HHS teachers and peers; he was always respectful, kind, responsible, and helpful. He took learning seriously and had many worthwhile goals for himnself.
I did not learn of his fate until months after the 9-11 attack. Because of this news, I personally relived the tragedy again.
Every year since 2012 I have told his story and encouraged my students to remember the tragic events of 9-11-2001.
Even this day, 9-8-2016, I am presenting a lesson about 9-11. Alok's name is written on my board, I've shown his photgraph to my 8th grade students, and his presence is is my heart.
Mrs. Sandra S. Collier
Whitesburg P-8 School
Huntsville, AL
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The Dixons
September 11, 2015
Always remembered.
September 10, 2015
Never forget.
S J. Friscia III
November 18, 2014
In Memory
With Honor & Respect.
September 9, 2014
Alok, though almost 13 years have passed, I still think of you, and remember how your smile and humor brightened the days in the biochemistry department. On Thursday my daughter, my two grandchildren, and I will release a balloon into the Colorado sky to remember you and honor you. Patti R., Fort Collins, CO
H K
July 15, 2013
You are not forgotten.
R E
September 11, 2012
Thinking about you my friend. Love you.
Betty Blanco
October 22, 2011
Alok, we send up a balloon in memory of you on 9/11 this year with your name on it.
Swapna Dixit
September 26, 2011
Alok
You are dearly missed. I remember our summer hanging out and helping each other through some tough times. You were a great friend. I remember playing golf with you, our trip to the Belmont Stakes, Fourth of July in NYC, etc.
I am married and have a 3 year old son, Kesin, and a 3 month old girl, Leela. You would really like them.
Miss you Alok.
Patti Rosenfelder
September 11, 2011
Alok, I always remember your smiling face in the Biochemistry Department office. You were so happy, so friendly. I remember thinking to myself that your parents must be so proud to have raised such a son. I will never forget. Lighting a candle for you on this day, September 11, 2011.
Alok's famous smile
Nicky D.
September 11, 2011
Bob & Nancy Ford
September 9, 2011
Your never far from our thoughts. Now ten years later we hope for strength and peace for your family.
Roland E.
September 9, 2011
You are never far from my thoughts and of those whose lives you touched at good ole Alliance Hall. I am married now and have a son - he is almost 2 years old. I wish you could meet him. He is awesome. Not in some valley girl sort of way but as in he generates awe in me every time I see him learn something new or say a new word. You would really like him. I miss our late night insomniatic talks. I never got a chance to thank you for helping me get through that first year of law school. You helped me keep my sanity that year. You had so much hope for your future that it inspired me to look forward and aim higher. Love you buddy.
By the way, although you always bragged about siding with Vader and the Empire, you should know we always knew you were an Alliance guy all along...a real softie. We miss you a lot...laters.
Preeti Aggarwal Telang
September 11, 2008
Tater head...I'm having a baby...it's a boy...it's due to arrive any day...I miss you...I love you so much...I wish you were here...
P Tabbernor
December 30, 2006
In memory....
Kristine
November 22, 2006
As I cross-stitched your name on the memorial that I am doing for all of the victims, I prayed for you and your family. Please know that your death was not in vain. We will always remember. God Bless.
Preeti Aggarwal Telang
September 11, 2006
Hiya Allu....
I am missing you so much these days!! My life is changing in so many ways and the one person with whom I could share every last detail isn't here. I still talk to you...I know you can hear me...I wish I could hear you back. I was making roti the last time I spoke to you...I was with my Mom and I said I can't talk now...Congratulations on the internship, I'm sooo proud of you...I'll call you in a day or so...I love you! and hung up. I remember trying to reach you all day..calling again and again and then finally calling your mom and her voice...so hollow, so scared...I refused to give up. I thought...not my Alok....he's probably off somewhere helping someone...cell phone just not working. He's so preoccupied with doing good that he's forgotten about calling home to let us all know he's safe. But he's fine...I just know he is. But you weren't. I imagine...I imagine you probably were helping someone. Some older lady or man...in my dreams, you were the true hero...putting their safety before your own. I know that is how it happened. Because you are a hero. You were my hero on more than a thousand good occassions. And you still are. I still look to you and think...he wouldn't want me to feel this way or act this way...he would tell me that I'm better than that. You give me the strength to go on when things are at their worst. I miss you. I can't hear your voice anymore...but I replay our conversations all the time. It's funny, I met an Alok the other day and I couldn't bring myself to call him by his name...he wasn't MY Alok. I read all that people have written to you and I am amazed at how everyone who knew you felt that you were totally theirs. Remember our pledge? We would be married to one another now (had we not met anyone else)...! I think of you daily and miss you more today than I did yesterday. Thank you for watching over me...I know you have a lot of people to look after! You are the most precious star in the sky. I love you!
Preeti Aggarwal Telang
September 12, 2005
Alok...
My dearest...I miss you so much. I cannot express in words the void that I feel everyday. It's been four years and your voice still rings in my head. Your smile still reflects in my eyes. Your words still fill my dreams. I miss you. I'm married now. It's the same guy we talked about daily for the last nine months or so. You weren't sure if he was good enough for me...you were gonna come check him out at Sruti's wedding...I so wish you had been there. I so wish I had seen you in person...not just in my dreams. I don't even have a decent picture of you. Just the one that floats in my mind. But I do still have the Mr. Taterhead...my precious little clown bear. And I have a lot...I mean, A LOT of great, great memories. My husband and I still celebrate your birthday every year. You two would have loved each other. You would have been the best of friends. I was in Colorado one day (the airport on the way back home). I sat in the terminal crying...if only you had been there...we would have been together. I miss you Alloo Pakoda. I miss you. You know, I've only seen one shooting star after that night to the monkey's cages...and that was with my husband. So we were right, you know...when we saw it that night and said, in unison, "you know, the person you see a shooting star is meant to be with you forever". We were right...but I wish we could have more right. And you are here with me forever...but you deserved to be with so many forever...so many people love you Alok...everyone who knows you...loves you. You had and have a great heart. I am glad to know I had a small place in it...I want you to know you have a permanent home in mine.
All my love, always...to you...and to all those who love you.
Preeti (crazy girl) I only let you call me that!
marcus gilmer
September 11, 2003
i'm stunned to have learned of learned of alok's being in the tower. we were teachers aids together for a semester in high school. alok had a wicked sense of humor as well as a terrifying statistical knowledge of pro football.
tonight, i'll drink to you, alok.
Nicholas DeCicco
September 11, 2003
Buddy -
I think of you often and speak of you much. I keep a picture of you on my wall next to others from that day. When I think of you, all I see is that smile that seemed to never leave. Keep smiling down on us my friend.
Nick DeCicco
(Hofstra Law School '03)
Marla Seth
August 4, 2003
Forgive me, Alok. I have known of this site for over a year now, yet I couldn't bring myself to write in it. I think of you often, and miss you dearly. There is a whole world of bulldogs and greyhounds and ranches in Montana that we will never discover. I was very fortunate to have you as my friend. Thank you for all the late-night drives and phone calls, silly errands, and advice. I love you!
You'd be happy to know that I've decided you were right, but I still don't plan on changing any of my tastes. By the way, the movie ends with the entire town collapsing into the tunnels.
Amy Devocelle
September 16, 2002
I ran away again to see If I could forget about seeing,
To forget about thinking,
To forget about feeling,
To forget about losing.
I regret nothing!
Through everything, the wars, the dances, and the fights.
You have meant nothing but love to me.
Its hard to forget the hellos, the goodbyes, and all the times.
You showed me a world that long had been a mystery to me.
Showed me the door and gave me a key.
I turned the knob and strolled right on through.
Only in reflection now am I sure
You gave your love to me.
I miss it, every bit,
But it is no mystery now to me what it is that was so selflessy special what you gave to me.
loki,
See I can use punctuation! Are'nt you proud of me?
I am so sorry I missed your call that weekend. There is not a day that goes by that I do not think about it. It took me the longest time to erase your voice from my answering machine. Even longer to erase you from my e-mail list. I miss my three am calls and my IM's. I miss seeing Akmeh1 on-line.
Thank you, there never has or will be a friend like you!
Till we meet again,
friends forever!
Marsha Gilbreath
September 11, 2002
I just saw Alok's name flash across the TV screen, and in an instant, the horror of September 11th became personal. Having lost contact with Alok a few years ago, I had no idea of his whereabouts, or his death.
I can only reminisce of the time we spent together and the laughs we shared.
May your family and friends be comforted in this time of sorrow and remembrance.
Marsha Gilbreath
Alabama Governor's School
1995
Brooke Sajdak
September 11, 2002
I recently visited NY and I seen your missing poster on a memorial. Alok, forever your face was etched in my heart. On the anniversary I decided to look on the internet and see if I could find you in the names. The poster did not have your last name so it took me some time to find your guestbook. I just want to tell your family and friends that I was thinking of them and their loss today and reading your guestbook today showed me that you are loved dearly. Bless you all.
Karen Van Bebber
September 11, 2002
Alok,
I can still see your smiling face in my chemistry class. You had a way of making others smile and enjoying life. You are someone I will always remember with happy thoughts!
Michael Hawkes
September 11, 2002
Alok (cola spelled backwards with a K),
I am at a loss for words and can't express how losing you affected me.
I feel as if part of my soul is empty. You have the dubious distinction :-P of being the first person who has close to me to die, and I'm not sure how to take it.
I remember some of the fun times at CSU. The idiotic banter that went back-and-forth was lively and fun. BUFFALO! *grin* This is the only way I want to remember you.
-Requiesat in pace
Meryal Smith
September 10, 2002
Alok, I have gotten a buzzer system in your memory for use by our chemistry team at Randolph School. As we practice, I think of you often and remember the fun we had on the various trips we took at Huntsville High.
Love, Meryal Smith
Laura Bauer
September 10, 2002
"If the people we love are stolen from us,
the way to have them live on
is to remember them.
Buildings burn, people die,
but real love is forever."
"The Crow"
Alok,
It's so comforting to know I'm not the only one who cries at night because I miss your friendship. I hadn't seen you in five years, and yet you always called -- once every few months at first, then at least once a week. You became my rock-- the one I turned to when I needed advice, needed to laugh, or just needed someone to listen to me cry. I know you're still here, but it gets harder and harder to hear your voice sometimes.
I thank God I got to talk to you that Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. My huge regret will always be that my illness caused me to end our conversation Monday night. "I'm sorry Alok, I can't talk," I said, "I really need to go to bed." If I had only known...I never would have hung up that phone.
There's so much to say:
You gave the worst backrubs! (But I'll always remember your hugs.)
I'll never forgive you for chickening out of asking me to Prom and then telling me 4 years later!! (ok, I do)
Did you ever approve of a guy I dated??
Did you see I proved you wrong first semester? You told me it couldn't be done! (with the very best of intentions) I hope that made you smile. I can just picture you shaking your head.
Alok, because you cared, you never let me forget you were there for me. I promise I will never forget you now. You are always in my prayers, and I can only hope to be the kind of friend to others that you were to me.
I love you and miss you so much.
You are in my heart forever.
I'll see you soon--
Kathryn Coser
September 9, 2002
It has almost been a year of searching for you, wondering if you survived or not. My last words to you were so harsh. I never got to say I was sorry and that I loved you. I will forever remember your smile and the boyish charm. Because of your friendship, I am forever a better person. If I could only feel your arms around me one more time. I miss you so much Alok-a-cola.
Stephanie Rikeman
September 6, 2002
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. --Dylan Thomas
I miss you Loki.
Linda Devocelle
August 31, 2002
Dear Alok, I cannot believe a year has nearly passed since we last talked. You we're trying to reach Amy and I intercepted the call instead. I didn't know at the time I would never talk to you again. The world has stumbled back to its feet since then, but it is not the same without you, nor will it ever be. I know that wherever you are, you are busy, as always, with the whys and wherefores of this enormous Universe of which we are so small a part. Thank your for being a part of my life, but especially, thank you for what you gave to Amy. Your life, though far too short, was a precious gift and all of us are richer and stronger because of it. Love you, Linda
Preeti Aggarwal
August 20, 2002
Allu..........
Will you ever know how much I miss you?? I love you dearly and ache every day that goes by without the sound of your voice ringing in my ears. There's so much to talk about...so much to tell you...my only comfort is that you already know and are watching over me even now. Thank you for being the best friend I ever had. I am so incredibly lucky to have had you in my life. Dearest Potato Head......you are brightly shining star...one that I look for every night. You will never, ever be forgotten. I love you with all my heart. And I apologize for not having the strength to keep in touch with your parents. My own grief is so much that I don't know if I will be able to handle theirs. If they read this...Aunti, Uncle...Soumya and Atul...you are constantly in my thoughts and prayers. Happy Belated Birthday my dear...I wish I had found this site four days ago...
I love you. I miss you.
Sean Henderson
July 16, 2002
We had not spoken in a quite some time old friend our busy schedules pushing us to keep tabs on each other through mutual friends. All the same I will miss you. I sit here today 10 months later and think how I cannot tell you about my new daughter and I cry. You were a good man and there are so few of those these days. There is now a void in this world without you.
Sean Henderson
University of South Alabama (when we last saw each other)
March 7, 2002
MAY YOUR SOUL...ALOK MEHTA REST IN PEACE AMEN...
February 28, 2002
DEAR GOD SHINE YOUR LIGHT ON THIS LONELY NAME...ALOK MEHTA...REST IN PEACE WITH GOD AND HIS ANGELS.GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS..GOD BLESS AMERICA AND NEW YORK AND MAY WE NEVER FORGET 9/11/01..MAY GOD GREET YOU AT THE GATES OF HEAVEN..AMEN...YOU WERE TOO YOUNG TO DIE...AMEN.AMEN.
Teresa Jahn
December 21, 2001
America Cries
We see your sorrow-
and our hearts cry....
We can not erase your pain
but you do not have to face the anguish alone-for we-
-the American people-
are beside you.
We so desperately want to have the touch that brings you comfort,
the strength that gives you courage,
and the words to lighten your spirits.
And when we are left speechless
may the silence of our nation weave love into your hearts
to ease your sorrow.
May you find healing through our nation's strength as we-
-the American people-
face this difficult time together. Our hearts are with you. Teresa Jahn
Dixon, IL
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