Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 8448 Plough Quarterly • Winter 2017 Talat Hamdani immigrated to the United States from Pakistan in 1979. On September 11, 2001, her son Salman, an NYPD cadet and an EMT, didn’t come home. Talat searched the hospitals and morgues, but found no trace of her son. Because of his Muslim faith, some surmised that he was complicit in the terror attacks. Six months later, Salman’s remains were found at Ground Zero with an EMT bag by his side. He had given his life trying to save others. In fourth grade, Salman came home from Catholic school and said, “I don’t want to go to school anymore, Mama. Other kids say, ‘You’re not a Catho- lic. Why are you coming here?’” I went to the principal and she said, “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of it.” A couple of days later he came home and said, “I need a copy of the Qu’ran to bring to school. Our social studies teacher told the whole class to bring in their book of faith.” That is what this country needs: education about other faiths and toler- ance and diversity. My objective is to show the American people – especially non-Muslims – the face of a Muslim who died that day, show them that his family suffers the same pain as anyone else. Just because we are of a different faith doesn’t mean that the pain is less, or that we don’t miss our child, or that we are insensitive or cruel. No, you cut, we bleed.  ■ “How is our pain different? How is your pain superior to my pain?”