I read the article in Dog Fancy and it is wonderful. Did you know that a rat Terrior Ricki was used as a search dog? His owner/handler had used other purebreeds but 'was heartbroken' over their health problems. She saw a Rat Terrior on the front of DOG FANCY and knew that was the dog she wanted to work with. She rescued Ricki from a shelter. He worked the night shift while paired with another cadaver dog where they found half a dozen uniformed workers.

What really touched me was how they preluded the article.
I quote "Here we profile a handful of the many dogs involved in the events of Sept 11, and explore their heroic homecomings to a changed world. For each one, hundreds will go unnamed but never unappreciated. And to that list we can add the names of our own dogs, who might have been far away from the smoke and the terror, but who sat at our sides, wagging their tails in perpetual optimism, as we turned in tears from the television reports of death and destruction."

It made me think of Shaianne, she is an unnamed hero also. At least to me, she died 2 days after the WTC tragedy and it helped me in thinking that she went to heaven to be with those children and people that died. She left me to comfort them. Tho I needed her comfort also, God had a bigger plan for her. Now that her job is done, she is continually comforting those that cross, she hopefully will walk my loved ones across the bridge and then come back and wait for me, so we can cross that bridge along with Keegan, and Kylie and any future brothers or sisters she might have together.