In the haze of confusion and fear on September 11, 2001, Frank Siller felt certain of one thing.
“I turned to my mother-in-law and said, ‘I think I just lost my brother.’ I was sick to my stomach,” he told me of that fateful morning.
His brother, Stephen Siller, had just gotten off duty as an FDNY firefighter and was driving home from Park Slope to Staten Island when he heard the North Tower of the World Trade Center had been hit by a plane. He turned his truck around, donned 60 pounds of equipment and ran through the closed Brooklyn Battery Tunnel toward the horror unfolding in Manhattan.
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