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Captured by a young girl as she spoke directly to the uncle she had never met, and imagined how he might be today. >> my uncle, firefighter christopher michael mazillo. i know you're with us each and every day watching over us. even though i never met you in person, i still miss you a lot. mom always tells me the crazy, fun things you did. and i'm sure if you were here, i'd probably be doing them with you. >> so new york city right now, these two brilliant shafts of light where the twin towers once stood in lower manhattan. the president and the first lady paid their respects to the victims at...

Civilian jetliner being suspected of being hijacked. the whole idea of you lose lives in the air, you don't lose them on the ground. >> right. those were the choices that were being contemplated. >> what president ever enters office thinking i may have to do this? and it's unclear whether the president gave his thumbs-up before cheney passed it on or whether it was after. the president agreed either way. that flight was already nose down into shanksville. >> now we have been seeing some heartfelt tributes to those who lost their lives in those attacks. but one man's tribute to his firefighter ...

Best friend. you want to know why? because he treated everybody that way. >> he sounds like a wonderful man. >> reporter: steven siller was a new york city firefighter who on the morning of 9/11 had just finished his shift with brooklyn's squad one. he went back to work after learning a train had crashed into the world trade center's north tower. siller grabbed his gear and drove toward manhattan. when he saw the brooklyn battery tunnel was closed, he got out and ran through the tunnel with 60 pounds of gear on his back toward the twin towers. steven was one of more than 300 new york city fire...