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‘This is my country’: how the family of Balbir Singh Sodhi resolved to carry on his American dream
At a gas station in Mesa, Arizona, more than 2,300 miles from where the twin towers fell on 9/11, stands a permanent reminder of long reaching trauma.
A memorial constructed with speckled white marble and black tile marks the spot where Balbir Singh Sodhi was shot and killed, becoming the first American victim of a fatal hate crime in the aftermath of 9/11.
It was 15 September, almost 20 years ago, that Sodhi, a Sikh immigrant from the Indian Punjab, was fatally shot in an act of racist hate as he planted flowers around the parking lot of his new business to commemorate the victims of the terror attacks in New York.
The gas station has remained largely as it was then.
It is still owned by the Sodhi family and Balbir’s son, Sukhwinder Singh Sodhi, now 48, is here every day managing the staff, handling the checkout, balancing the books and working 60 hours a week. He tries to ke