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The Trey Gowdy Podcast

A Veteran's Day Encore...Honoring Those Who Gave Their Lives ft. Frank Siller

The Trey Gowdy Podcast

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News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.76.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Trey revisits a conversation with Chairman and CEO of the Tunnel To Towers Foundation, Frank Siller, to share the story of Firefighter Stephen Gerard Siller who gave his life on 9/11, and how the foundation honors Veterans Day. Later, Trey talks about the things he will be reflecting on while observing Veterans Day. Follow Trey on Twitter: @TGowdySC Trey's forthcoming book Start, Stay, or Leave is available for pre-order NOW! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Tray and thank you for joining us for another Tuesday's

0:22.5

WeTray. We appreciate very much you given us part of your week on September the 11th of this year.

0:29.3

We reminded ourselves of how we felt 20 years earlier, what we thought and experienced as we watched our country

0:38.8

under attack and 20 years ago we promised we would never forget that we would always remember what

0:47.1

happened and how we felt and who was responsible and maybe even most importantly what we lost.

0:54.3

Frank Siller doesn't need September the 11th to reflect on what he lost. He is keenly aware of it every day

1:02.6

and he decided to do something about it to try to turn tragedy into something good.

1:08.3

And he joins us now. Mr. Siller, how are you? Thank you. I'm very good. Thank you for having me on today

1:13.7

and thank you. Give me an opportunity to talk about the work that the tunnel to tell us foundation

1:18.3

is doing and to talk about my brother, a hero who gave his life up on September 11th.

1:22.8

And you know what? I do want to talk about tunnel the towers, but I want to start with someone by

1:27.9

the name of Stephen Siller. Tell us about Stephen. Well, Stephen was a New York City firefighter.

1:35.2

He was an outrageous human being, but he became a firefighter and was 27 years old.

1:40.8

And he was the youngest of seven kids. My parents had Stephen actually. He was our little miracle.

1:46.8

They had him. My father was 49. My mother was 44 and he was much younger than all of us.

1:53.6

I was closest to an age. I was 14 years older than him and my brother Russ was 25 years older than

1:58.8

him. So he was our little miracle and it grew up to be this unbelievable human being.

2:05.2

Also, my parents died when he was a little boy. So by time he was 10 years old, he was orphaned

2:11.0

and we raised him as older siblings raised him primarily by my oldest brother Russ out in Rockville

2:16.8

Center and Long Island. He grew up the first 10 years on Staten Island here in New York,

2:22.9

one of the few conservative burrows. And he just was, he realized the importance of everyday

2:30.3

trick. He knew life could change at any moment and he grew up and he became a firefighter.

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