Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱

A Jesus follower, a mom, a friendly lady who loves life, family, friends and coffee, though depending on the day, not always in that order! ;)

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

At Ground Zero, after the last living person was pulled out, the search dogs stopped eating.

So the police did something nobody had written down in any manual.

They climbed into the rubble, lay down, and pretended to be alive.

More than 300 dogs worked the World Trade Center site. They came from every corner of the country, on trucks and in cargo holds, with handlers who had been trained to do one thing. Find people who are still breathing under the ground.

That is what a search and rescue dog is built for. Not bodies. Life. They are trained on live human scent. When they find it, they bark, they dig, they light up, and the handler rewards them, and the whole thing means something.

The last living person recovered from Ground Zero was a woman named Genelle Guzman-McMillan. She had been buried for 27 hours. A dog found her.

She was the last.

After that, the dogs kept going out on twelve-hour shifts, across sixteen acres of smoldering steel, at temperatures that burned their paws, and they found nobody.

Nobody.

Day after day.

The handlers noticed it first. The dogs were changing. Their tails were down. They were not eating. They would come off the pile and lie flat and not look at anyone.

A veterinarian named Cindy Otto, who spent ten days there working night shifts to care for the animals, put it plainly. The dogs had been sent to find life, and every day they were finding the opposite.

It was breaking them.

An NYPD officer named Famiglietti described what happened next.

They pulled everybody off the rubble. Then they asked for volunteers.

The volunteers, police officers, went out into the debris and hid themselves. Under beams. In voids. Curled up in pockets of concrete. They were told to lie down like they were hurt. Then the handlers sent the dogs in.

Picture that.

A grown man with a badge, a man who had spent the last week pulling friends out of that same pile, lying down in it on purpose. Face down. Holding still. Waiting for a dog.

And the dog comes over the top of the wreckage, and catches the scent, and barks, and digs, and finds a person who is warm and moving and alive.

And the handler says good girl, good boy, and the whole team celebrates.

They called them mock finds.

They did it for the dogs.

They did it so the dogs would remember what they were for.

One of those dogs was a two-year-old golden retriever named Bretagne. She came from Texas with her handler, Denise Corliss. It was her first deployment. They worked ten days at Ground Zero. They found no survivors.

But firefighters would come off the pile, stone-faced, not speaking, and see the dog, and something would break open in them. They would kneel down. They would put their face in her fur.

One day a man walked up to Bretagne and started petting her. He told Corliss his best friend loved golden retrievers.

Corliss asked where his friend was.

The man pointed at the pile.

"He's in there somewhere."

He kept petting the dog.

Bretagne went on to work Hurricane Katrina and Rita. She retired at 10. She was the last known surviving search dog of 9/11.

On June 6, 2016, at age 16, she was carried into a veterinary office in Texas to be put to sleep.

Outside, a dozen firefighters from her fire department stood in a line in their dress uniforms, in the heat, and saluted as she went past.

They draped her in an American flag on the way out.

Three hundred dogs went into that pile looking for the living.

They found one.

And when they could not find any more, the men they worked beside laid down in the rubble and let themselves be found, so the dogs would not lose heart.

That is the whole story of Ground Zero, really.

Nobody could save the dead.

So they saved each other. 🇺🇸

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

@farmingandJesus 🥰

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

@rabbriansamuel Happy Birthday. sir!

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

@farmingandJesus That’s what I thought!

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

Prayers needed. Please pray and share.

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

She was like a Rock Star in this performance. Fantastic💓💓
#AnnaLapwood #Bach #toccata

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

Please pray.

[Mike @TestimonyOfMike]

Prayer request please, need all my brothers and sisters in Jesus to stand by me. It’s been an extremely difficult 6 months.

[Smash Baals @smashbaals]

Man this tweet goes hard

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

Incredible.

[Oliver Burdick @oliverburdick]

The Holy Bible:

- 1500 years
- 66 books
- 42 authors
- 1 unified story
- 63779 cross-references

God is incredible.

[Gretchen Ronnevik @garonnevik]

There’s always so much guilt. “Only 18 summers with your kids, mama.” “You don’t know when it will be the last time you get to tuck them into bed, mama.” “You don’t know when it’s the last time…so say “yes” to all the things.”

No. Stay sane. Love your kids well and also don’t manipulate yourself out of rest. Rest is survival. I have kids aged 8-20(and 3/4). If I sit and think about it, sure, I miss the baby sounds. I miss the little snuggles. But usually I’m having too much fun enjoying the stage my kids are at now to think about it, and I volunteer at the church nursery and get my baby snuggle fixes.

But sleep AND big kids who get your humor? This stage is awesome. And my only regrets are the times I lost it on my kids because I wasn’t taking care of my own basic needs.

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

@EliAfriatISR Hi!

[autocorrect2.0 @autocorrect2_0]

Never take it for granted. 😭

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

@TheMuppetPastor Cream dried beef on toast
Cheap hot dogs on bread
Generic mac and cheese

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

@PicturesFoIder I want to see someone over 50 get in and out of it. Also, what happens when it drives through heavy rain/puddle? How often do it get run over when anyone driving can’t see it?

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

This baby needs God to heal her. Please pray and share.

[DUKΞ @thedukekim]

Lexi’s back in the PICU, this time with severe sepsis, pneumonia, and a weeping rash across her body. Multiple organs are/were failing.

We’ve had to have unimaginable conversations with doctors to prepare us for the worst.

But this afternoon we were able to stop some of meds stabilizing her blood pressure, which was a very critical win for us in order to continue care.

We still need to beat the infections, get her lungs pumping on their own, figure out her electrolytes and mitochondrial disfunction, and get fluid out of her body and into her cells.

If you’re the praying type, please pray for dear Lexi’s complete and quick recovery

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

Wow! Definitely worth the listen.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Fantastic!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🎯

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

@robbystarbuck If you’re handwashing before using your dishwasher, you are wasting a lot of water, not to mention time and effort. It’s a dishWASHER, not a a dishRINSER.

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

@realEmoSedillo_ @joshbottweet @sola_chad Not harmful yet. Yet being the key word.

[Patti🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Pkpalmtree]

@1Nicdar My mind