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...dogs digging through the World Trade Center crypt have become so discouraged by their failure, day after day, to find anyone alive that rescue workers have taken to burying themselves under blankets and allowing the dogs to sniff them out and "save" them, while others watch and cheer and pat the dogs on the back...
...Pat Yarno, 49, a rental-car-agency manager in Bourbonnais, Ill., had long been planning a family vacation in Florida. Last week she scrapped the trip. "When I made the cancellations, it was like a thousand pounds was lifted off me," she says. A national company that provides janitorial services to office buildings--including the World Trade Center--was at a loss as to what to do when its workers began balking at using elevators or entering tall buildings...
...Captain Pat Brown, 48, always said the New York City fire department had saved his life. He came home to Queens from Vietnam in 1973 covered with medals but angry and choked up on adrenaline, daring anyone to knock the chip off his shoulder. Not good qualities for most jobs--unless you need to suit up every day against an adversary like fire. He made some spectacular rescues, including a courageous save as a lieutenant in 1991 on the roof of a midtown office building: Brown and two of his men held an inch-thick rope in their bare hands...
...Brown called back, "Are you nuts? We've got a job to do!" and rushed up the stairs of the north tower with his men, past the engine companies with their hoses, to look for trapped office workers. Said Gill: "One of the newspapers called him 'the gallant Captain Pat Brown.' That's exactly what he was." --By Ellin Martens...
...appalled that this tragedy is being used as a way to further cement political agendas and opinions not just by Cohen but by others such as Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson. Like Cohen said, right now “We need caring solidarity among all Americans. We need to protect our country, to care for the victims and their families and actually identify our enemy.” We don’t need to use the events of last week as an excuse to bash men and smugly assert the moral superiority of one gender over the other...