| Description | Subject: Fw: Story about a Golden Retriever named Daisy!
What a great story, especially if you are an animal lover. This is a true
story which happened on 9-11-01........ 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. With tears in her eyes she darted away
into the darkened
hallway. Choking on the fumes of the jet fuel and the smoke he 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 into 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 lead 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.
{copied from NEW YORK TIMES 9-19-01
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