The Dog Who Wouldn't Stop Searching
On September 11, 2001, Apollo disappeared into a hole in the rubble at Ground Zero.
Then a fireball erupted.
Seconds later, the German Shepherd came running back toward his handler, NYPD Officer Peter Davis.
Apollo was on fire.
Davis brushed the burning embers from his thick coat.
And Apollo went right back to searching.
Apollo was nine years old—an age when many police dogs had already retired. But that morning, he and Davis became the first canine search-and-rescue team to arrive at Ground Zero.
The conditions were brutal.
To reach the rubble, Davis later recalled wading through water that came nearly to his waist. Apollo searched across jagged concrete and dangerously hot debris. His coat was singed. His paws became cracked and bruised.
Still, he searched.
Apollo had been trained to find the living. But as the hours passed, the terrible reality of the site became clearer. Eventually, Davis had to physically pull Apollo away from the debris when the dog refused to stop looking.
And Apollo wasn't alone.
Search-and-rescue dogs and their handlers worked through wreckage, dust and toxic fumes in the aftermath of the attacks. Apollo became a symbol of all of them.
On March 5, 2002, he was awarded the PDSA Dickin Medal for courage and devotion to duty. Apollo had been selected by ballot to receive the honor on behalf of every search-and-rescue dog that had worked at the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Apollo lived to be 14.
Twenty-five years later, we remember the people who ran toward danger that morning.
Apollo reminds us that not all of them ran on two legs.
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The politicians who watched this happen decided to immediately import 5 million more Muslims from the 3rd world and then call Islam a religion of “peace” nonstop while adding trillions to our debt to “rebuild” Muslim countries.
The worst betrayal in the history of civilization.
One of the saddest 9/11 stories I've read about.
A man on the West Side of the North Tower tried to climb down the side of the building using a technique known as a ''chimney climb.''
He managed to scale down 9 floors over the course of 30-40 minutes. He went down from the 94th floor to the 85th floor but was knocked off when the South Tower collapsed.
Indomitable human spirit. I wish we knew his name.
I lost my Dad on 9/11. I don’t get a lot of reach on here. But I just wanted to share a picture. He was 39. I thought he was old. I’m now in my mid 30s and I still feel like a kid.
He was a great trader. He loved markets. He loved to find a stock no one was talking about.
The first trade I ever placed was on his work computer, where he let me click the button to buy AMAT. I loved going to the office with him. It was electric.
He was the best dad. We spent hours out in the street after dinner where he’d throw “pop flys” for me to catch. Eye on the ball.
He loved watching Sponge Bob and eating cereal, wrestling with us in the living room. He just loved being around his kids so much, and we knew it. I’m so grateful I got a dad like that.
Love you, Pops.
3,000 people may have died on 9/11, but that’s not the actual death toll. Nearly 10,000 died from 9/11, as the heroic rescuers continue to die from cancers they’ve endured as a direct result of the wreckage from the muslim terror attack 25 years ago. 9/11 hasn’t forgot about us.
Mamdani and AOC laughing while names of victims of 9/11 are being read should be in every single campaign ad in every single city in America until November.
This is the Democratic Socialist Party.
They hate you. They hate America.
Blast this everywhere
🔥 WOW! JD Vance RIPPED APART Abdul El-Sayed at the RNC after Abdul mockingly questioned whether Vance's grandfather could have ever loved his wife Usha
Vance didn't flinch, and made clear DEMOCRATS are the party of RACISM:
"Abdul looks at him, sees the color of his skin, sees his background, and decides that he could never have loved my wife."
"Thanks be to God that my papaw was a better man than Abdul El-Sayed. Because I guarantee you he'd love my family every bit as much."
Then he went FURTHER:
"The Democrats are the party of HATRED. They're the party that despises America and the people who built it."
8:46 a.m. People started jumping.
Networks had the footage and chose not to air Americans choosing the fall over the flames.
For 25 years the word Islam was treated as an offense. The Videos were “too graphic.” The facts stayed off the air.
💥 ✈️ 💥 Dicen que este video grabado por un Japonés,es publicado por primera vez en 23 años...😳
Es un poco largo, pero vale toda la pena verlo…
El momento del colapso del WTC se muestra desde un ángulo que nunca se había visto...
Mira bien los detalles 😉
This made me cry. Please read.
“Every year on 9/11, firefighters and first responders across the country honor the fallen by climbing 110 flights, the height of the Twin Towers. Many do it in full gear, some on stair machines at the gym, others in high-rise stairwells.
Each step is a tribute to the 343 FDNY firefighters and all the lives lost that day.”
Credit: @newyorkers IG for copy + video credit @mjcexperience IG
🔥 BREAKING: Stephen Miller is BLOWING UP on the invasion of Islamists into America facilitated by Democrats
Every word is true.
“The Democrat Party fundamentally has sided with the JIHADISTS in the war on terror. That's where we are right now!” 💯
Mamdani elected mayor. Kathy Hochul in a hijab. Abdul El Sayed is close to becoming senator.
THIS IS A SERIOUS THREAT! Voting red is no longer about “policy differences” only but PRESERVING AMERICA.
🚨🇯🇵BREAKING
JAPAN'S NEW ANTI-ISLAM LAWS SEND SHOCKWAVES
Halal - BANNED✅
Mosques - BANNED✅
Call to prayer - BANNED✅
Burka - BANNED✅
This is basically saying Islam is not welcome here
Should we copy Japan?
A. Yes
B. No