2996 project...9/11 tribute

Martin Boryczewski
A Mother's Tribute to an All-Star Son

These are not my words but from an article written about Martin.

May 17, 2002

In his mother's home, Martin Boryczewski's bedroom remains as it was the day he died -- the bed neatly made, sports posters and photographs on the wall along with some of his trophies in their usual places.

It's a room full of memories.

Boryczewski, 29, an institutional stock trader for Cantor Fitzgerald, pursued a dream before eventually joining the firm: He was a good enough baseball player to be signed by the Detroit Tigers and Pittsburgh Pirates, playing four years for minor league teams in their organizations.

Boryczewski was on the 104th floor of Tower One, along with several of his colleagues, when the tower was struck Sept. 11. His family thinks this is where he died that day.

Three months before the terrorist attacks, he began to gradually move out of his mother's home in Parsippany, N.J., and into a Hoboken, N.J., condominium. "Everything is left the way it was," the trader's mother, Krystyna Boryczewski, said.

Her son was a sportsman who loved fishing as well as baseball. He graduated with a business degree from St. Peter's College in Jersey City.

Before joining Cantor Fitzgerald, where he worked for about 18 months, he was employed at several other bond firms, including National Discount Brokers.

But his first love was baseball. "Marty was a catcher and a very good pitcher," his mother recalled.

Golf was also another of his passions. His mother said he started in that sport when he was about 12. She said that a week before the tragedy, he bought a new set of golf clubs, and that they stand unused in a corner of that bedroom of remembrance. An unopened box of fishing gear he ordered also is at home.

In the garage, there's a bass boat that Boryczewski used for fly fishing. He would often tow it to the Poconos in Pennsylvania with his father, Michael, who is divorced from his mother. Together, he and his dad would try their luck at a nearby lake.

Krystyna Boryczewski recalled that about 10 days before the terrorist attacks, her son went deep sea fishing off the Jersey Shore with his boss, Paul Furmato, in Furmato's larger boat, and caught a 110-pound tuna. "There are tuna steaks still in my freezer," she said.

Boryczewski was principled, his mother said. "He was full of integrity. That was very important to him." At a memorial service for him at St. Christopher's Church in Parsippany, Susan Penitone, the wife of a close friend, read from a poem Boryczewski wrote when she was pregnant.

"It was about how God was giving them a gift. Marty used to write poetry and was a very spiritual person, too," his mother said. In addition to his mother and father, Boryczewski is survived by two older sisters, Julie and Michele Boryczewski of Parsippany.--Bill Kaufman (Newsday)

Martin's family one year after 9/11 at the memorial site.

To me this young man had his whole life ahead of him.  His time was filled with his passions: his family & friends, fishing & baseball.  He is deeply missed by his family and friends....

 

The 2996 project link...

http://www.dcroe.com/2996/?page_id=2