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[Stephanie @savageandbougee]

Today is about them. It’s not about political partisans. It’s about the memory of those that were lost that day and their families.

[Texas A&M Aggies 👍 @12thMan]

Tonight the Class of 2026 is officially enshrined in the Hall of Fame. Congratulations to these Aggies! 👍

[Amb. Arturo Sarukhan @Arturo_Sarukhan]

Esta es la placa que colocamos en el Consulado General de México en NY en memoria de los mexicanos y de todas las victimas que perecieron en los atentados terroristas del 11 de septiembre de 2001, junto con la bandera mexicana recuperada del World Trade Center.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

Dedicated to all the 9/11 search-and-rescue dogs

With love and gratitude 🐶🤎

[Mike Malagies @MMalagies]

prayer for protection🕊️

[Pedro Luna @pedluna]

Dress accordingly.

Aquí el color que vestir. #LosAggies @los_aggies

[Lore @LorePierce]

@MMalagies Amen 🙏🏽

[Mike Malagies @MMalagies]

I feel far away from God💔😭

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Roselle, a calm, golden‑furred guide dog, rode the elevator up to the 78th floor of the North Tower with her owner, Michael Hingson. To everyone else, it was just another Tuesday. To Roselle, it was a job: stay close, stay steady, keep her human safe.

When the first plane hit, the entire building lurched like a ship struck by a wave. Lights flickered. Ceilings cracked. Papers rained down like snow. People screamed. But Roselle didn’t. She simply pressed her body against Michael’s leg, a silent message: I’m here. Follow me.

Smoke began to fill the hallway. The air tasted like burning metal. Sirens wailed from every direction. Yet Roselle walked forward with the same steady pace she used every day, guiding Michael to the stairwell.

Behind them, dozens of terrified people followed her tail like a beacon. Step by step, floor by floor, she led them downward through the choking darkness. The stairwell shook. The heat intensified. But Roselle never sped up, never panicked, never once broke her rhythm. She knew that if she stayed calm, her human would too.

Somewhere around the 30th floor, a woman froze, sobbing, unable to move. Roselle stopped. She nudged the woman gently, leaning her warm body against her leg until her breathing slowed. Only when the woman whispered, “Okay… okay,” did Roselle continue the descent.

It took nearly an hour to reach the lobby. Firefighters shouted for everyone to run. The tower groaned above them. Roselle guided Michael through the chaos, out into the blinding sunlight, and down the street, refusing to stop until she sensed they were finally safe.

Minutes later, the North Tower collapsed.

Roselle didn’t know she had just saved her owner’s life. She didn’t know she had led more than a dozen people to safety. She didn’t know she had become a symbol of courage around the world.
She only knew one thing: her human was alive, and she had done her job.

Most people know Roselle guided her blind owner down 78 floors of the North Tower, but very few know what happened after they escaped. As the tower collapsed behind them, a massive cloud of ash and debris roared through the streets like a tidal wave. Michael couldn’t see it coming, but Roselle could. Instead of panicking, she leaned her entire body into him and pulled forward with absolute determination, guiding him through a darkness so thick he couldn’t breathe or hear. Even as the ground shook and people screamed around them, Roselle never once broke her pace. Her training didn’t tell her what to do, her loyalty did.

#archaeohistories

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A newborn died in Nashville overnight on September 10, 2001. His family, in the worst hours of their lives, decided to donate his organs. Only the liver could be used.

Early the next morning a match came back: a 6-month-old girl in Houston named Kareena, dying of liver failure. A charter plane was booked and the recovery surgery at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital was nearly finished. Then the country closed.

Jill Grandas ran Tennessee Donor Services. Her phone rang, and it was her own staff member standing in the operating room. "What are we going to do? No planes are allowed to leave the ground."

There was a liver in a cooler with hours left on it, a baby in Texas who did not have longer, and not one civilian aircraft in America was permitted to move. So Grandas reached for the phone book.

"Believe it or not, 20 years ago in the blue pages, there was a listing for the tower," she said.

Somebody at Nashville International picked up, handed her to a supervisor, and the supervisor's calls reached Senator Bill Frist, a transplant surgeon before he was a politician, who did not need the situation explained to him. The Tennessee Air National Guard was cleared to fly.

They started up a C-130 Hercules, an aircraft built to carry a tank, and put 10 ounces in it.

"We usually take some pretty interesting things in the back of a C-130," co-pilot John Howard said. "And that was probably the lightest payload, next to being empty, that I've ever flown in my life."

Nobody spoke for the first half of the flight. The sky was empty and patrolled by fighters, and the crew understood what could happen to an aircraft that appeared where it should not be. They landed in Houston and handed the cooler over without shutting down the engines.

Dr. John Goss was waiting at Texas Children's Hospital. The transplant went smoothly.

Kareena is 25 now. "All these people who didn't know this little baby, who had no connection with this child, worked together on a day that really tested our nation," she said.

This week, 25 years later, she finally met Jill Grandas in person.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

James Talarico, on what "real men" don't do.

[Mike Malagies @MMalagies]

this is a God video (99% of you will skip)

[Texas A&M Aggies 👍 @12thMan]

Next weekend, we're Standing For America. The attire is red, white & blue.

Get game ready: https://t.co/a3C1BeLcf5

[Texas A&M Football @AggieFootball]

EVERY SUPERHERO NEED HIS THEME MUSIC

[Texas A&M Aggies 👍 @12thMan]

The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band, folks

[Texas A&M Aggies 👍 @12thMan]

Von Miller is back home!! 👍

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

My 15yr old granddaughter still hasn't emptied the dishwasher.

I asked her to do it four hours ago.

Now she's freaking out because she can't find her phone...

Which is on silent in the dishwasher.

Follow me for more amazing parenting tips….

[Texas A&M Football @AggieFootball]

A permanent tribute to a lasting legacy.

Honoring Coach R.C. Slocum. 👍

[Pedro Luna @pedluna]

Good morning #Aggieland - it’s gameday! #GigEm #LosAggies @los_aggies @12thMan @AggieFootball @aggieonair @SECenEspanol