“There was a long delay at the airport. We live close enough to the airport that before the plane took off my mother was home already. The phone rang, but she didn't have time to answer it. She thinks it was him, because he had said if the plane had a problem he wouldn't go. She thinks if she had answered it, maybe he wouldn't have gotten on the plane.”
“It's not based on being the first Latino. It's more as a person _ who he was and what he taught. That's why still today newborns are given the name Roberto or Clemente in admiration.”