Bits and Pieces

Remembering Babita Girjamatie Guman, 9/11/01

Project 2,996 is dedicated to remembering the victims of 9/11.

Let us take a moment to remember Babita Guman.  Babita, a 33 year old Guyanese woman, wife of Deodat and mother of Christina and Malissa.  Babita, computer specialist at Fiduciary Trust, described as "self-assured, feisty, no-nonsense".  Babita, last seen on the ground floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 09/11/2001.

These few words do scant justice to the life of Babita Guman. She knew love in her marriage. She knew joy in her children. She labored, she struggled, she laughed, and no doubt there were days she cried. Her life was full. Babita had dreams of becoming a teacher, she encouraged her daughters to aim high. Babita yearned to exchange their one-bedroom home in the Bronx for something larger, where they could spread out, grow old, gather years of memories. And no doubt she knew great fear that brilliant autumn day when her world came literally crashing down around her.

Rest in peace Babita Guman.

My soul is full of whispered song;
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are all alive with light.
~Alice Cary

Other tributes to Babita Guman:

CNN

The New York Times

Fleur de Lisa

Tributes to others who died on 9/11/01:  Project 2996