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The Hamdani Family in 1987: (Top left to right) Talaat and Saleem, (bottom left to right) Adnaan, Zeshan, and Salman. (photo ctsy. Hamdani family)

While fiercely proud of his American citizenship, Salman Hamdani, like so many Americans, was equally proud of his immigrant roots. "He was very proud of being Muslim," his mother, Talaat, says. She tells of how her husband used to pick up young Salman and his two brothers from school every Friday at 1 p.m. so they could go pray, as required by Islam. But when he reached the ninth grade, Salman suddenly found he had tests every Friday, preventing him from leaving school. "He was very sad," his mother says, remembering the time. "He was upset when he couldn't pray." As Salman grew older, he became increasingly proud of his Muslim and Pakistani heritage. While he grew up speaking English in the home, on becoming a teenager, Salman learned to speak the Urdu language of his parents. He also wanted to learn how to read Urdu, his mother says, but never had the time. 

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