Zoe and Trigger

Maddie and Speckles

THE KISS

She is pregnant;

he had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the fire.

When he finally got done putting the fire out, he sat down to catch his breath and rest.

A photographer from the Charlotte , North Carolina newspaper, noticed her in the distance looking at the fireman.

He saw her walking straight toward the fireman and wondered what she was going to do.

As he raised his camera, she came up to the tired man who had saved her life and the lives of her babies and kissed him just as the photographer snapped this photograph.

Not All Heroes are People

NOT ALL HEROES ARE PEOPLE ~ ~ ~

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. She darted away into the darkened hallway.


Choking on the fumes of the jet fuel and the smoke James
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 in 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 led 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 Guiliani rewarded Daisy with the
Canine Medal of Honor of New York. Daisy is the first
“civilian” Canine to win such an honor.

The Whale

A female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines.
She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat.
She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a
line tugging in her mouth.
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate ) and radioed for help.
Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only
way to save her was to dive in and untangle her -- a very dangerous proposition. One slap of
the tail could kill a rescuer.
They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.
When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles.
She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them.
Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
May you, and all those you love, be so fortunate...
To be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.
And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.

Life is short ...forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably...
and never regret anything that made you smile