Dog is Top Story in One ‘Dog’ of a Year
Hero dog tries to save injured canine in Chile.
By all accounts 2009 was a pretty tough year the whole way around. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan raged on with no real end in sight. A lot of people lost jobs and continue to face financial hardship. The government handed hundreds of billions of dollars over to the richest people in the country who in turn gave it right back to themselves. The nation experienced a hostile split on the contentious issue of health care reform. The culture of Reality TV hit new levels of craziness as wannabees actually endangered children and breached security at the White House. The greatest sports legend of the decade fell from grace like no other. Oh yea, and the Yankees won the World Series.
Yet amidst all of this there was one really great story worth remembering. It’s fully encapsulated in about a one minute video that made the rounds last summer, but even if you saw it then its worth another look now. On a highway somewhere in Chile, a dog was struck by a car and left for dead until his friend, another dog, braved the high speed traffic and pulled him to safety on the side of the road. There’s no way you can watch it, be it for the first time or the fiftieth, without getting a lump in the eye or tear in the throat, or however the saying goes. Only the actual footage can do this story justice.
When you look back at all that happened in 2009 we can certainly learn a ton from this dog turned hero. For instance:
President Obama might learn that when it comes to great obstacles or challenges they need to be taken on one hundred percent or not taken on at all.
Treasury Secretary Geithner might learn that help should be provided to those who are truly in need and not to those who are already taken care of.
Those who disagree fiercely on health care reform or any other issue for that matter, such as our elected officials in Congress, might now remember there is a common good in working together.
Reality TV aspirants such as balloon boy father Richard Heene and White House party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi might realize from this that the great dramas of life occur at a moment’s notice and can not be contrived or rehearsed.
Tiger Woods might want to take note that this dog’s life was saved by a single other dog, not an endless population of them.
Even Yankees ace closer Mariono Rivera might admit this was the best save of the year to say nothing of the fact the dog was paid nothing to be out there.
And of course there are those who might say there is no greater symbolism in this story at all and at the end of the day this was really nothing more than a dog just being a dog. If so then thank God for that too, because in one dog of a year it looks as though it’s taken a real dog to show us all how to be human.
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