Stephen Siller

In life and death, Stephen Siller brought his family together. With both of his parents dead by the time he was 10, his six brothers and sisters, all much older, helped raise him. When Siller, a New York firefighter, died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, his siblings rallied around, helping his widow raise their five children. As New York marks the fourth anniversary of the attacks at ground zero, the Sillers will once again stand together.

TEMECULA - To visit Cpl. Juan Dominguez in his new "smart home" adapted to his combat injuries, his friends will wind through streets with names from the traumatic event that led to the Marines being sent to Afghanistan. Off Meadows Parkway, they'll cruise along Nacke Drive, then Bradshaw Drive, Dahl Drive and Lyles Drive, all named for people who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. From Lyles Drive, they'll come to Rivera Drive, also named for someone who was on the flight that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew members thwarted the terrorists' plan to crash the aircraft in Washington.

TEMECULA - To visit Cpl. Juan Dominguez in his new "smart home" adapted to his combat injuries, his friends will wind through streets with names from the traumatic event that led to the Marines being sent to Afghanistan. Off Meadows Parkway, they'll cruise along Nacke Drive, then Bradshaw Drive, Dahl Drive and Lyles Drive, all named for people who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. From Lyles Drive, they'll come to Rivera Drive, also named for someone who was on the flight that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew members thwarted the terrorists' plan to crash the aircraft in Washington.

In life and death, Stephen Siller brought his family together. With both of his parents dead by the time he was 10, his six brothers and sisters, all much older, helped raise him. When Siller, a New York firefighter, died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, his siblings rallied around, helping his widow raise their five children. As New York marks the fourth anniversary of the attacks at ground zero, the Sillers will once again stand together.

After 21 days of bagpipes, tears and eulogies, Sally Siller was reeling from grief. She had mourned at the funerals of firefighters killed in the World Trade Center attacks, and now it was time to face her own loss. Her husband, Stephen, had not been heard from since he raced to join his Brooklyn fire engine company at the crash site on Sept. 11. And as days turned into weeks, her five young children still had not been told what happened to their father.

In the last minutes of his life, New York firefighter Stephen Siller sprinted through the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel with 80 pounds of gear on his back. He was racing toward the World Trade Center but perished in the Sept. 11 inferno, leaving behind a wife and five young children.

SAN DIEGO - Under a gray sky, not far from San Diego's Balboa Park, actor Gary Sinise is getting ready to strap on his bass guitar and play before a crowd of more than 2,000 people. It's the last day of a recent weeklong celebration for the fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Combat and Complex Casualty Care (C-5) program at the Naval Medical Center San Diego for the war wounded. Members of the Cirque du Soleil Street Team are performing. There are balloons, face painting and rock climbing for kids, plus barbecue from Food Network star Robert Irvine.

After 21 days of bagpipes, tears and eulogies, Sally Siller was reeling from grief. She had mourned at the funerals of firefighters killed in the World Trade Center attacks, and now it was time to face her own loss. Her husband, Stephen, had not been heard from since he raced to join his Brooklyn fire engine company at the crash site on Sept. 11. And as days turned into weeks, her five young children still had not been told what happened to their father.