Author: Youkilis (The Golden Retriever)

We drove for about 2-1/2 hours and then we stopped at the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, PA.

It was a really pretty place, but something terrible happened there back in 2001 before I was even born.  Some really bad people hijacked a plane and were going to fly it into the capital in Washington, DC.  Some of those bad people’s other friends had already crashed planes into the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC that same day.  There were some brave people on that plane, and they forced it down and made it crash into this field that we were at instead of the capital.  Those brave people would never get to see their families or puppies ever again.  I couldn’t understand why people would want to hurt people that they don’t even know.

Mommy and daddy seemed sad at times when we walked around.  I wasn’t able to go inside the buildings, but I was able to walk around the outside trails with mommy and daddy.  I helped to keep them happy if they started to get too sad.  A lot of people would come up to pet me and I helped them from getting too sad as well.

My daddy’s mommy helped in the recovery of the place in New York where the planes crashed, it was called Ground Zero.  My daddy thinks about his mommy a lot when he goes to places that refer to 9/11.  Daddy says that she was a great human.  Daddy doesn’t know this, but I have met his mommy.  You see us dogs have a sixth sense that humans don’t have, so I actually talk to my daddy’s mommy quite a bit.  She’s a cool spirit now.

I heard that there were some golden retriever’s that helped at Ground Zero too, I could have been one of those dogs for sure.  I would have been really good at that.