{"id":697,"date":"2004-05-07T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T18:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2010-07-11T12:51:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T16:51:47","slug":"mans-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Man’s Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps you’ve seen this before, perhaps not – but I wanted to link to it – a slideshow tribute of all the tireless rescue dogs at Ground Zero in the wake of September 11<\/a>. I clicked on it casually, from Tim Blair<\/a>, and 2 or 3 slides in, I couldn’t look away, I was just overwhelmed with emotion.<\/p>\n

I remember seeing some of those dogs, walking with their owners beside them, down the West Side Highway “to work” in the morning – meaning the steaming hole in lower Manhattan. Crowds lined the highway, to cheer all the firemen, rescue workers, ambulances driving by. We made signs, we stood there for 2 hours, screaming, crying, holding up the signs, shaking people’s hands – it was one of the most incredible mornings of my life. We wore masks on our faces, our eyes sometimes burned with the smell when the wind changed. And these PEOPLE, these dusty people walking by, driving by … Words fail.<\/p>\n

And we saw a couple of the dogs stroll by, too, stepping jauntily on their leashes.<\/p>\n

They were a part of the rescue effort, too, in those days immediately following, when there was still hope that there would be survivors. We cheered the dogs, too. We cheered them like crazy, reaching out to pet them as they walked by.<\/p>\n

This slideshow is a tribute to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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