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post: 5989 | Not All Heros Are Human | 09-21-2006 2:11:20 am |
| Subject: Not all heros are human!
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.
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 knew there were others who were trapped. So, highly against James' wishes she ran back in the building.
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.
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.
I hope you enjoyed this story. I thought it was terric!
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post: 3306 | 09-21-2006 3:19:27 am |
| What a touching story. I am finding it hard to type with the tears in my eyes. So uplifting, thanks for sharing Lily. How awesome.
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post: 1136 | 09-22-2006 12:40:36 pm |
| I wish this was true, it is such a wonderful story http://www.snopes.com/rumors/daisy.asp
Origins: A blind man, a golden retriever named Daisy, the selfless rescue of almost a thousand people from one of the collapsing World Trade Center towers — if it all sounds too good to be true, it's because it is.
This is a case of the heroic rescue that wasn't. This widely circulated Internet tale of canine courage is pure fiction.
One of its more obvious tipoffs is the claim that the imaginary dog went to the 112th floor of the damaged tower to retrieve more victims in need of rescuing. Both World Trade Center towers topped out at 110 floors.
One version of the Internet forward concludes with "copied from NEW YORK TIMES 9-19-01." That claim is as fake as the rest of the piece — no such article ran in The New York Times or in any other publication, on that date or any other.
At least two men were guided to safety by their guide dogs: Michael Hingson from the 78th floor by Roselle, and Omar Rivera from the 71st floor by Dorado. Neither dog then returned to rescue others, though.
The horror that was September 11 is hard for many of us to accept, thus the need for "miraculous rescue" tales such as this one. That they have to be made up apparently doesn't stop some from doing exactly that.
  Rhonda |
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post: 3306 | 09-22-2006 1:25:37 pm |
| I should have checked snopes myself, I usually do...Oops....
Well it would have been a great story, I was thinking to myself thats an awlful lot of people she saved, how come this dog Daisy hasn't been all over the news? I did here about the one gentleman and his guide dog, so I never really gave it much thought after that...
Thanks Rhonda...
Lorrie
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post: 6235 | 09-22-2006 3:19:20 pm |
| I've heard that story before. It's a great story, thanks for sharing it.
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post: 5989 | 09-22-2006 3:42:35 pm |
| Wow I'm so sorry about the confusion, I didn't know that, I thought too that she saved a lot of lives and I'd never heard about it on the news. I'm truly sorry everyone! 
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post: 3306 | 09-22-2006 5:36:39 pm |
| Oh Lily don't sweat the small stuff. Its the people that start these stories that should be sorry...
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post: 1136 | 09-22-2006 1:38:06 am |
| No problem Lily....I think it would make a good movie for us to sit with a box of kleenex and watch....
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