Juan Mendez Lafuente

Inscribed

National September 11 Memorial North Pool · Panel N-71

In memory of

Juan Mendez Lafuente

1940 – 2001

Born in
Cienfuegos, Cuba
Killed that day
September 11, 2001, aged 61
Lived in
Poughkeepsie, New York
Worked
Vice President - Global Electronic Customer Delivery, Windows on the World visitor

Their life

Killed at the World Trade Center on the morning of 11 September 2001. The first aircraft struck the north tower at 8:46 and the second the south tower at 9:03; the south tower came down at 9:59 and the north at 10:28. Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-three people were killed there.

North Pool · Panel N-71, 22 namesEmmanuel Akwasi AfuakwahFrancois Jean-PierreSteven A. JacobsonRocco A. MedagliaTelmo E. AlvearThomas F. Hughes, Jr.Francisco Miguel ManciniRicknauth JaggernauthJay Robert MagazineJoseph D. MistrulliJohn Ernst EichlerJuan Mendez LafuenteIgnatius Udo AdangaJerome O. NeddJose NunezIouri A. MouchinskiEustace R. BacchusCharles A. LesperanceManuel João DaMotaJoshua Iosua PopteanObdulio Ruiz DiazSee Wong Shum

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What people have said 1

I did not know you personally, but I know your name now, and I know you were taken.

S. Vincent Anthony 11 September 2026