Today a spe­cial Recog­ni­tion Cer­e­mony is being held for the more than 1,000 ser­vice dog teams which responded to 9/11 attacks. The cer­e­mony is being held at his­toric Lib­erty State Park, near the Statue of Lib­erty and within view of lower Man­hat­tan and the miss­ing Twin Towers.

The cer­e­mony will include recog­ni­tion of spe­cial teams and peo­ple and includes the sign­ing of the Con­ven­tion of Coop­er­a­tion Among Amer­i­can Work­ing Dog Orga­ni­za­tions. (Note a cer­tain bat-eared dog club among the sup­port­ing and sign­ing clubs.) Both the Recog­ni­tion Cer­e­mony and the sign­ing of the treaty will be used to plan a future White House Con­fer­ence on Work­ing Dogs in America.

9/11 Work­ing Dog Recog­ni­tion Cer­e­mony
Lib­erty State Park, Jer­sey City, NJ
12:45 PM, Sun­day, Sept. 11, 2011

For more details on this event, visit FindingOneAnother.org.

Many, many thanks from us and our snorty lit­tle crew to the dogs and peo­ple who responded to 9/11 and to the teams who con­tinue to be there, offer­ing assis­tance to any cur­rent crisis.

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