Firefighter
Stephen
Siller
Squad 1
Memorial Service was
held on
October 3, 2001
Steve
Siller was an orphan at age 10 ‹ his mother died of cancer, his father
from a blood clot ‹ and he spent his childhood in the care of his sisters
and brothers. "He accepted what was handed to him," said his wife, Sally. "He
lived life to its fullest. People meant everything to him." A typical day
for Mr. Siller, 34, went something like this: work a 24-hour shift and then
golf with his brothers; go home and have lunch with his wife; take the children
to the park; help the neighbor with a flat and then go to bed. He was a fireman
with the Squad 1 company in Park Slope, Brooklyn, who died helping people.
He was last seen running through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel on Sept. 11
with his bunker gear under his arm. His brother George wrote a poem for his
memorial. It reads, in part: What to say to his five children and wife? How
do I try to explain what's ahead in their life? I'll tell them their father
was a saint and a hero,
Who fought courageously, the battle at ground zero.
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