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The rule at Ground Zero has stood since 2012: no politician gets a podium. Just the names, 2,977 of them, read one by one. Trump asked to speak. When organizers said no, he chose not to show up at all, headed to the Pentagon instead, where he would get a microphone. Obama, Biden, Bush, and Clinton showed up anyway, with Michelle, Jill, Laura, and Hillary standing beside them, on the 25th anniversary of the worst day in this country’s history. Four presidents chose silence over a stage.

Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower on September 11, 2001. He has been blind since birth. His guide dog, Roselle, was under his desk when the plane hit. The building lurched. Smoke filled the offices. People shouted. Roselle stood, calm, and waited for the harness. They went into Stairwell B and started down. Seventy-eight floors. Firefighters passed them going up. Jet fuel burned in the air. A woman stopped, too afraid to keep walking. Hingson talked her forward. Roselle never pulled away, never panicked, never stopped. They reached the lobby and then the street. Minutes later the South Tower fell and a wall of dust rolled over them. Roselle kept leading. Hingson lived. Roselle lived. They walked out of a building that would not be standing an hour later. He has spent the years since telling the story not as a miracle of sight, but as a story of trust: a man who could not see the stairs, and a dog who did not need to be told that the only way out was down. Remember Michael Hingson. Remember Roselle. Remember everyone who started down those stairs and never reached the street.

The last surviving rescue dog from 9/11 passed away in 2016. Good girl

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. ❤️🐾

In December 2001, just three months after the September 11 attacks, Elton John appeared on “Live by Request,” an A&E special where viewers called in live to request songs. Among the callers, a woman shared that her husband had been one of the first responders to die at the World Trade Center, and that “Rocket Man” was his favorite song. Elton, visibly moved by the request, sat down at the piano and began playing that 1972 classic that everyone had heard a thousand times before. But that night, in that context, the lyrics about loneliness and distance took on a completely different weight. Sweating and with his voice breaking on every note, he managed to completely silence the audience for the four minutes the song lasted. x.com/historyrock_/s…

Dedicated to all the 9/11 search-and-rescue dogs With love and gratitude 🐶🤎

A final look at the World Trade Center, just after midnight on Sept. 11, 2001, from New York affiliate WABC's sign-off of their Sept. 10 news broadcast.

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@RadioFreeTom a shot in the dark here, but would you be open to a virtual Q&A with my 9th grade English class? “The Death of Expertise” plays a big part in my wanting to do a unit on “Lateral Reading,” especially with social media!

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THE SPECTACLE SHOWED OUT. 🥽 20 PTS | 7 AST | 80% FG

Idk if legit or not, but the “don’t care about a selfie and do what’s right” thing resonates.

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Rudy Gobert @rudygobert27

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Did the #MNTwins really have us going? ~4 hours for another swing! SP, RP, OF are my non-expert POV wishlist

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Amazing inbound to get that 3PA by the Storm. Not sure if it was designed or not. May have to look into it 👀

Olivia Miles plays like everyone’s too slow, too fat uncle that cooks everyone at an open gym. I love it.

@Parkerfox24 Scale of 10-10, it’s a 15 right? My F-I-L wants to see the Eagles there in November

The NBA, again, is waiting on LeBron. And each of the reported teams that are making major pitches to him have their strengths. Here, though, is a vote for the best and cleanest basketball fit: the Timberwolves. Free to read, in @TheAthletic: nytimes.com/athletic/74409…

@DanBarreiroKFAN I wonder if Messi’s penalty kick struggle is akin to an elite shooter struggling at FTs—i.e. SD’s own Mike Miller shot 41% from 3 yet only 76% from FT.