GIOVANNA GAMBALE: Finding Peace
With Peace
Giovanna
Gambale and her sister Antonia both worked in 1 World
Trade Center. Antonia, who is 25 and worked on the fifth
floor, was able to get out right away. She called her
father, Anthony, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, and told
him she was OK. He told her to come home. Then he said,
"What about your sister?"
Giovanna Gambale, 27, was a vice president at Cantor
Fitzgerald, on the 105th floor. She loved the Mets, was
so organized that even as a child she told the teachers
what to do.
"Yesterday I would not have talked to you," Mr.
Gambale told a reporter, "but we have had a lot of
discussion. We are extremely sad, but we are resigned
that my daughter is in heaven. We haven't heard from her
in four days. I spoke to a psychiatrist at Cantor
Fitzgerald yesterday and he more or less told us nobody
survived.
"I loved my daughter, but I'm at peace with God. We've
had three prayer services in front of my house: 300
people Wednesday, then 200, tonight about 150. There was
a young man in the group whose father is a fireman,
missing, caught in the rubble. And we talk about there is
no greater love than to lay down your life for your
friend and that is what the firemen did. I told people
that never in my life did I ever imagine we would be
saying prayers as a group on the street, in front of my
home, and this is what God wants us to do. If we are
going to destroy hatred and bigotry, what we have to do
is begin being peaceful."
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