Decorated in Vietnam, Carrillo came home to raise three children, now in their teens. He was a safety inspector for the Federal Highway Administration.

Hours into the rescue, the photos of Baylee’s limp body (cover and left) had become icons of the disaster. Baylee, a year and a day old, was pronounced dead moments after they were taken.

Brown met Ron, her husband of 40 days, in Secret Service training. The two were still waiting to be granted a job in the same city; when the bomb went off, he was at his desk in Phoenix, Ariz.

Luther and his wife, Larue, had just been dropped off at the Social Security Office and had brought along their granddaughter Ashley, who was confirmed dead on Saturday. “If they found Ashley,” said the child’s mother, “Mom and Dad are nearby.”

Widowed seven weeks ago, Argo came to apply for SSI benefits. Friends say hard times hadn’t dampened her gusto. A hospital administrator, she moonlighted for a caterer to keep up her modest brick home.

“They loved each other. They didn’t want to go anywhere without each other,” said Edye Smith, 23, who last saw her boys when she dropped them off at the day-care center.

The career Secret Service man swapped shifts to end up on the ninth floor at the time of the blast. Four years ago he turned to his Christian faith after nearly dying from a severe infection.

An army recruiter, Bolden was the single mother of Ricky, 13, and Jonathan, 11, who will go to live with their grandmother in New Castle, Ala.

The matriarch of a family literally blown apart by the attack, Hammon accompanied her daughters Felicia and Dana to the Murrah building to get a social-security card for Dana’s 3 month-old son, Gabreon. Cheryl, Gabreon and Dana’s daughter Peachlyn, 3, were presumed dead last week. Rescuers extricated Dana, 20, after amputating her lower right leg; hospital workers identified Felicia, 23, when she repeatedly called out her sister’s name.

Curry was on the job as a building inspector for the General Services Administration when the blast came. He leaves his wife, Kathleen, and two teenage children.

Before heading out of town on assignment, Turner, a special agent for the Department of Defense, stopped by the office shortly before 9 a.m.