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I woke up mid morning, struggling to wrap my mind around the TV images of a plane repeatedly flying into a skyscraper...I had been sleeping through the morning after working the graveyard shift, with the TV on when my cousin Karl called to tell me America was under attack! That was sure to wake anybody up wherever you were, never mind that I sat there about 120 miles or 2 hours away from ground zero, slowly adjusting to my new sense of vulnerability. As we spoke, a second plane flew into the next tower.
As if that wasn’t enough, another plane soon flew into the Pentagon, another 117 miles - roughly 2 hours in the opposite direction - away. Mind you, I was supposed to be moving to my new place, which was merely 30 minutes away from the Pentagon in exactly one week, and oh, I had almost moved in with my cousin Kwame who lived some 20 minutes away from ground zero!
After my initial shock, I set about calling my cousin and a handful of people I knew who worked in the World Trade Center buildings to ascertain that they were among the survivors, but alas, phone lines were clogged for another 72 hours or so, and it was literally impossible to get through.
So I’m glued to the TV, half-waiting for more attacks, the vice president is in a bunker, the president in indefinitely airborne, the phone is on redial one moment, receiving calls from panicked friends and family the next, and it just hit me in the gut! After the initial calamitous wave of first responders, they had brought in the search and rescue dogs with more dogs and handlers showing up to volunteer from all across the country, and that is how they were saving lives. It is reported that over 100 dogs ranging from the guide dogs that led their owners down over 70 flights of stairs to safety, the search and rescue (SAR) dogs, bomb sniffing dogs worked flat out till the last survivor was found 27 hours after the towers fell, by Trakr, a German Shepherd Dog.
