Man's Best Friend On His Worst Day

The story of 9/11's search and rescue dogs

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - It's in a dog's eyes.

Pain, love, devotion; a lifetime expressed in a weathered look.

But at nearly 12 years old, Red's gray beard and hind legs are more telling, she doesn't get around as easily as she once did.

Calling it a career in June, the search and rescue lab is now retired; a life's work that literally started where a record amount of American's lives violently ended.

"I think basically my first pile where I just found remains in two extremes of conditions, from someone who was clearly part of the explosion to somebody that had been through the fire. And that kind of set the tone for what we were looking for."

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