Tribute to Isaias
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CBS Vet, Evangelical Pastor
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The Independent
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The Independent - Relatives
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The Independent - Relatives
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Certifications received by Isaias Rivera
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Isaias was very involved with his community
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With Love, for you...
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CBS pays tribute
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For you...
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In Memoriam of Isaias Rivera
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The Governor's Award - New York Emmys
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The Governor's Award - New York Emmys
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The Governor's Award - New York Emmys
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Nilsa Rivera pays tribute to her husband Isaias
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Nilsa Rivera pays tribute to her husband Isaias
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Isaias mentored his community's youth. He used to say he had a vision of all his students under his roof at once, together with each other, with God. This happened after his death. They packed the house. His dream came true.
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The Healing Heart Project is a nationwide collaborative artwork create din response to 9/11. Third year anniversary of 9/11.
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Lynette's perspective as a daughter who lost her father on 9/11.
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Tribute to Isaias Rivera
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Isaias Rivera along 5 others, was commemorated with the 2002 Veteran Wireless Operators Association Award for his dedicated career to radio communication.
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NAHJ raises s funds Isaias Rivera's children. Isaias was born in Puerto Rico.
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NAHJ raises s funds Isaias Rivera's children. Isaias was born in Puerto Rico.
Fun at Comfort Zone Camp
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From our hearts to yours...
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Member of the Comfort Zone Camp
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Isaias' family share flowers and pay tribute to him
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Isaias' family pays their respects
Fun at work
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All suited up
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Isaias' family member at CZC
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Young Isaias Rivera
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Isaias was a devoted family man who enjoyed spending time with his family.
Holiday party
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Isaias and his family
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The Rivera Family
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Isaias and Nilsa tie the knot
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Isaias' son and grandson
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Family fun
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Isaias' family receives an Emmy on his behalf
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Isaias and his daughter Lynette
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Isaias was a devoted family man. He fathered a daughter and three sons.
Comfort Zone Camp in the news
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Newspaper interviews Isaias' wife
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Nilsa looks for her husband Isaias in 2001
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Comfort Zone Camp in the news
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Looking for Isaias Rivera - CNN
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Relatives search for their loved ones
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Isaias' stepson Pedro Lopez is interviewed on September 12th.
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Newspaper article
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Isaias' daughter Lynette is interviewed for a town newspaper
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Town resident honors Isaias Rivera
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Family interviewed for local newspaper
Missing person shirt
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Missing person t-shirt for Isaias
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Quilt for Isaias Rivera
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In loving memory of Isaias Rivera, 1950-2001
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The Healing Heart Project
Looking for Isaias Rivera
Isaias' daughter Lynette receives postcard expressing condolences for her father's death. Artwork by Isabella Disabato, 5 years old.
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Isaias' daughter Lynette receives postcard expressing condolences for her father's death. Artwork by Isabella Disabato, 5 years old.
Memorial Service Program for Isaias Rivera, October 24, 2001
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Empty Sky: NJ State 9/11 Memorial
Boston Public Garden 9/11 Memorial
Conseleya 9/11 Memorial
Dewitt 9/11 Memorial
Montclair State University 9/11 Memorial
East Newark 9/11 Memorial
Fair Haven 9/11 Memorial
Freehold Township 9/11 Living Memorial Tree Grove
Crescent Beach Park - Flagpole/Memorial for 9/11 Victims
Ivan Delgado is a child psychiatrist in Iowa. Nitza Hollinger is a lawyer in Alaska. Judith Cruz is a surgery technician in upstate New York. Pedro Garcia is a policeman in Washington, D.C.
All of them grew up in Spanish Harlem.
None of them would be where they are, they said, if not for Isaias Rivera. Mr. Rivera, then in his early 20s, taught teens the Bible and clean living at Hispana Pentecostal Church.
"Those were mean streets, man," Hollinger said. "To see a good, clean teen just kind of says I don't have to go the route of everybody else in Harlem. And we did it, we made it -- so many of us."
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 -- when the 51-year-old Mr. Rivera was at work as a maintenance engineer at the CBS transmitter on the 110th floor of One World Trade Center -- former students poured into his Perth Amboy house from across the country.
"We call ourselves Isaias' children," said Cruz, now 39.
Cruz became a magnet for the wrong boys in her early teens. Her school attendance became shaky. Mr. Rivera was a relentless nag.
"He kept on me and on me. He always said that I was made for great things, that even though I was Spanish and I was a minority, in God's eyes there are no minorities," Cruz said. "He was annoying."
Now Cruz has a home, a husband, two kids and a good job.
"Isaias knew me as little Judy, always in trouble," she said, gently weeping. "Well you know what, little Judy grew up okay."
Among young Delgado's weaknesses were drugs. Then 15, he joined an informal group of teens that would hang out in Mr. Rivera's apartment after church, eat bread and coffee, talk religion and laugh a lot.
Delgado straightened out and set off on a path that would lead through the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.
He ran into Mr. Rivera at a church service a few months after graduating.
"You're a doctor now!" his mentor said, sporting that familiar, infectious smile and bursting with pride.
Mr. Rivera used to say he had a vision -- all his students under his roof at once, together with each other, with God.
It happened after his death. They packed the house, hundreds strong, their own children in tow.
"His dream came true," Cruz said. "All the young people he had ministered to were in his house. But he wasn't there."
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