Gregory Thomas Saucedo Age-31 Brooklyn NY Firefighter, FDNY Still missing, WTC Gregory Had been with Ladder Co. 5 in Greenwich Village from 1/98 to11/01 He previously served nine years with Engine Co.321 Brooklyn. 6/91 to 1/98 Gregory Graduated from South Shore High School With Aspirations to teach, he earned a bachelor's degree in Education from Brooklyn College. Gregory did not have to be Firefighter, His cousin Mark told me that Greg was offered a job as a teacher at the same time the job came up for the FDNY. Greg is a true hero from the start, He chose to serve and to save and that is exactly what he did. I did not know Greg, I was just asked to write the poem below for a friends website, to which I will leave a link. From everything that I have read, and from what his cousin has told me, Greg was an energenic person, always smiling, always laughing and always making someone else laugh. As of today Gregs body has not been recovered from the wtc and I would like to ask that everyone pray for the families sake he is recoverd. News article: Written by Natalie Pompillo All they have of Gregs is a flash light,a crumpled yellow hunk his name is on in black marker. Recovery workers found it about a month after the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed. For some Americans the events of Sept 11, and the over whelming emotions they caused are fading into memory. There are debates about when to take down the flags that went on the houses and the cars immediately after the tragedy. Tabloids again are filled with gossip after turning more sober in the months after the attacks. Hollywood is releasing several terrorist films put on hold after the stuff of movies played out in real life. The underlying message maybe: We have survived, and its time to put this behind us. To families like the Saucedo's, that message means, little. "It doesn't seem like six months to me. It seems like six weeks, six days," Christopher Saucedo said. "We want to make sure Greg is not a second class hero," Saucedo said. The four Saucedo brothers--Paul, Christopher, Stephen, Gregory--were born and raised in Brooklyn. Gregory Saucedo became a firefighter when he was 20. So did three of his closest friends, a group with ties going back to elementry school. After a few years as an electrician, Stephen Saucedo joined the department too. It seemed only natural. When four brothers were growing up, it was always "Stephen- and -Greg," one word for the two born 18 months apart. Before Sept 11, the pair had never spent more than a vacation's worth of time apart, of course, they would work together, of course, Greg would be best man at Stephen's wedding last October. But on Stephen's big day, Christopher Saucedo had to fill in for his little brother, and instead of working with Gregory, Stephen Saucedo and his brother's childhood friends spend their day and nights searching for him. Unwavering mission. Survivors said they saw Gregory Saucedo and his close friend, Vinny Giammona, moving quickly up the stairs, getting at least to the 40th floor. Wittnessess saw the pair administer CPR to someone and help carry a woman in a wheel chair down the steps. Recovery workers at Ground Zero say they're ahead of schedule and should finish their work before summer. To that end Saucedo purchased a new black suit to wear to his brother's funeral. Although services where held for Gregory in late September, the family needs another goodbye, one that brings some part of Gregory home to brooklyn.

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