To my NY Friends, is this true?
 

NOT ALL HEROS ARE PEOPLE ~ ~ ~
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>James Crane worked on the 101st floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade
Center.
>He is blind so he has a golden retriever named Daisy. After the plane hit
20
>stories below, James knew that he was doomed, so he let Daisy go, out of
an
>act of love. She darted away into the darkened hallway. Choking on the
fumes
>of the jet fuel and the smoke James was just waiting to die. About 30
>minutes later, Daisy comes back along with James' boss, who Daisy just
>happened to pick up on floor 112.
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>On her first run of the building, she leads James, James' boss, and about
>300 more people out of the doomed building. But she wasn't through yet,
she
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;knew there were others who were trapped. So, highly against James' wishes
>she ran back in the building.
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>On her second run, she saved 392 lives. Again she went back in. During
this
>run, the building collapses. James hears about this and falls on his
knees
>into tears. Against all known odds, Daisy makes it out alive, but this
time
>she is carried by a firefighter. "She led us right to the people, before
she
>got injured" the fireman explained.
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>Her final run saved another 273 lives. She suffered acute smoke
inhalation,
>severe burns on all four paws, and a broken leg, but she saved 967 lives.
>The next week, Mayor Guilaini rewards Daisy with the Canine medal of
Honor of
>New York. Daisy is the first civilian Canine to win such an honor.

Brought a tear to my eye whether true or not...
That story, more then anything I've heard today, bought back the horror of that day...

It tore me up...

It's a great story, and I wish it were true...but, no, it's a fable.

Tip off is it says she went to the 112th floor... WTC had 110 floors.

Read more about the fable here.

There was a story in Readers Digest about a German Shepard that saved it's family when the house was on fire. Woke up the kids, then the parents and waited in the front doorway until someone helped the dad out. Later they took the dog to the vet to have splinters removed from his gums. Turns out the family put him out for the night and he chewed through a plywood cover over one of the windows to get back in.

,,,my x's dog chews through doors too. If he doesn't stop doing that, well, it won't be pretty, LOL

Ernie

I saw the news footage of the blind man and the dog being interviewed on TV. The man claimed he thought it was all over but his dog lead him down the stairs and they both escaped. That's the true story, the dog did not go back into the building.

i happened to be near a TV when this all happend two years ago. I have never been so angry in my life. I still am.

A few days later i happened to pick up a Time magazine, and opened it to a page with a picture of a tiny person hurtling down to death. I looked closely, and i could tell it was a woman, because her dress was blown up over her head.

I put the magazine down, and have not looked at another picture or TV show about that day since. I spent 30 years and two wars in the Army. If I were a unit commander now, i would have copied that picture, and given a print to every soldier in my command, to carry in their wallet.

And told them when they wondered why they were sent so far away and put in harm's way, they were to pull the picture out, look at the tiny dying woman, and tell themselves, "this is why my country has sent me here for this duty." This woman represents my wife, my daughter, my mother.

And then they were to put the picture away, check their weapon's magazine, and wipe the dust from the sights.

[quote]Originally posted by Hal Copple

I put the magazine down, and have not looked at another picture or TV show about that day since.


Hal,

I saw it repeated 600 times in the days following the attack.
It's in my mind and I seethe just thinking about it and I also refuse to look at another picture or TV show about it. Not a day goes by that it doesn't enter my mind...

al