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Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero Kindle Edition
An instant New York Times bestseller, Thunder Dog tells the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the life-changing power of faith and trust in the face of terror.
When one of four hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001, Michael Hingson, a district sales manager for a data protection and network security systems company, was sitting down for a meeting. His guide dog, Roselle, was at his feet.
Blind from birth, Michael could hear the sounds of shattering glass, falling debris, and terrified people flooding all around him. But Roselle sat calmly beside him. In that moment, Michael chose to trust Roselle's judgment and not to panic. They were a team.
As you relive that fateful day in September 2001 alongside Michael and Roselle, you'll learn:
- The ways that grief and loss can lead the way for change
- How the rare trust between a man and his guide dog can inspire your own unshakeable faith
- The healing power of telling your own story
Praise for Thunder Dog:
"Chapter by chapter of this intriguing work will keep you spellbound. Thunder Dog celebrates the power of the human and animal bond. We all can learn life lessons from this incredible story."
--Larry King, Emmy award-winning broadcaster and longtime host of Larry King Live
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThomas Nelson
- Publication dateAugust 6, 2012
- File size588 KB
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About the Author
Michael Hingson, national ambassador for the Braille Literacy Campaign, is a miraculous survivor of 9/11. He lives with his wife, Karen, in the San Francisco Bay Area with two guide dogs, Africa and Fantasia, and one cat, Sherlock.
Susy Flory is the author or coauthor of four books, including So Long Status Quo, a memoir about nine women who changed the world. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, two children, and two dogs, Eli and Sprinkles.
Product details
- ASIN : B004Y1NWQU
- Publisher : Thomas Nelson; 1st edition (August 6, 2012)
- Publication date : August 6, 2012
- Language : English
- File size : 588 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 258 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #283,271 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Susy Flory is a #1 New York Times best selling author or co-author of sixteen books. A graduate of UCLA, she has a background in journalism, education, and communications. She directs West Coast Christian Writers Conference, is founder of Everything Memoir, and is working on her masters degree in New Testament from Northern Seminary.
A breast cancer survivor, Susy celebrates life by chasing great stories in places like Cuba, Haiti, Turkey, Israel, and her own backyard. She’s written with celebrities, heroes of the faith, athletes, explorers, and the girl (and boy) next door She has a rescued racehorse named Stetson, and loves hiking in the High Sierras, skiing black diamond runs whenever she can, and volunteering at her local wildlife rescue center where she helps care for injured and orphaned baby squirrels.
Her most recent book. Sanctuary (Tyndale, 2022), co-authored with Patrick Barrett, is the true story of an Irish village, a man who lost his way, and the rescue donkeys that led him home. Her 2014 book, The Unbreakable Boy, with Scott LeRette, has been adapted for the screen by screenwriter Jon Gunn for the Erwin Brothers/Kingdom Story Company and will release March, 2022, from Lionsgate Studios, starring Zachary Levi.
Michael Hingson is a #1 New York Times best-selling author, technologist and motivational speaker. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 terrorist attacks with the help of his guide dog, Roselle. This story of teamwork and his indomitable will to live and thrive is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog and the major motion picture currently in production, coming in September 2013.
Michael Hingson and his guide dog, Roselle, saved dozens of lives by guiding him and his co-workers down 78 floors and out of Tower One just before it collapsed on 9/11. In Thunder Dog, Michael leads us through his moment-by-moment account from inside the tower. The book is also an inspiring look at Michael’s accomplishments in life. Sadly, Roselle passed away in July 2011 but posthumously won the American Humane Association Hero Dog Award for 2012 in a star-studded gala in Beverly Hills, and televised in a special feature presentation on Hallmark Channel.
Despite being blind all his life, Michael has a master’s degree in physics from University of California Irvine and is an accomplished technologist. Michael has worked with inventor, futurist, Ray Kurzweil for more than 30 years and was instrumental in the development of the first reading machine for the blind. Today, the Kurzweil brand is the preeminent name in educational software and technology for students with disabilities for which Michael is a national sales manager—improving the lives of children, students and adults with physical and learning disabilities through assistive technologies. Michael Hingson has a deep commitment to education and is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association’s Hero Dog Awards. Innovative Speaker’s Network named Michael Hingson “one of America’s top 10 educational speakers”. Michael is a member of NACA and a member of the National Speaker’s Association.
In countless TV and radio appearances, newspaper features and magazine articles, Michael Hingson does much more than recount his 9-11 story; he continuously explores the broader lessons of his life and experiences as a blind person in today’s world and shares these lessons to educate, inspire and empower audiences world-wide. Michael has appeared on Larry King five times, and other major national broadcasts such as the Today Show, Fox and Friends, the 700 Club, Joy Behar, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, and the Hallmark Channel.
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I remember 9/11 and how I sat glued to the TV waiting for the discovery of survivors but then understood none were to be found. This book helped to understand the reality of the devastation.
It made me tear up in many places and also made me chuckle, which gave it alot of light in a dark place (no pun intended). I loved the descriptions of faith and Psalm 23 being delivered in such a way. It made me think of it on a much greater spectrum in my own life andI will be sharing it!
I will be thinking of this one with only a few days away from this fateful day, but also in the days to come.
The book is indeed a survival story, but it's one that spans Hingson's lifetime, beginning with his parents' decision to treat their son, blinded by excess oxygen at birth, as they would a sighted child.
Remarkably, Hingson learns to ride a bike and drive a car, albeit only in parking lots. Hingson's story majors in the theme that attitudes rather than physical limitations construct handicaps. It's an important idea that bears repeating n our rationalizing world.
On a personal note, I recall my own blind father, to whom I dedicated my book blog, hitting fly balls to my brother in our back yard. His tenacity, like Hingson's, inspired my own bull-headed, never quit attitude. I suggested to my students that they'll understand my belief that all can learn, all can succeed by reading Thunder Dog.
Thunder Dog offers insight into the world of blind people and the myriad technological advances, many of which I knew nothing about, in the past twenty-five years, including technology that transfers internet sites from text to speech.
The other star of Thunder Dog is Roselle, Hingson's guide dog who led him out of his office in the North Tower. The book also offers history into many of the challenges guide dogs and their owners face.
Read Thunder Dog for its message because you won't find a writing style or structure that rises to the standards of great literature. The most "literary" trope occurs at the beginning of each chapter as Hingson and Flory begin each with a quote from famous people such as Rosa Parks and Mahatma Gandhi: "Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency" (167).
The story that only speaks to the true Dog lovers in us, but also to the friends we may have that in fact have visible handicaps. This book begs the question, if we cannot see beyond a persons handicap, who is really the handicapped person.
It also brought back into my memory events of 9/11. Where I was, who I was with, some of the thoughts that run through my mind at the time, what happened to Me and some of my work associates immediately following the days and weeks after this Horrific event.
I appreciate all that Michael wrote within his book, and also his list of 10 things he learned from Roselle.
A very vital and interesting read!
I enjoyed how 9/11 was interspersed with the author’s youth & later experiences as an adult. I would have to agree that the totality of his life prior to 9/11, plus having a truly extraordinary guide dog, factored into their survival.
A 9/11 survivor I know cleared everyone from his office, pushing them to the stairs after the first plane hit, & was outside to see the second plane hit, as well as to see panicked people leap from the towers to their deaths. He lost many co-workers & friends that day, and shortly thereafter chose to retire at a very young age. He has never been the same, & I mean that in a negative sense. Perhaps his ability to SEE what was going on was too overwhelming, being “sighted” that day may have been a handicap.
I am very familiar with the Guide Dog program. They gave my father a lovely black lab after the elderly blind person Casey had been paired with passed away.
I moved to Palmdale in 1990, and happened to join a horse club through whom I met the Area Puppy Raising Supervisor. The volunteers and employees of Guide Dogs for the Blind perform an amazing service. I could not ever be a volunteer puppy raiser, it would break my heart to send the pup back to San Rafael when it was time. My friend the Area Supervisor has often said, “I’ve got news for YOU missy! I would NEVER approve you as a puppy raiser — your dogs are too damn spoiled!” Like I said, everyone who volunteers and works for Guide Dogs is special, indeed. Proper training and exposing these adorable puppies to various situations, preparing them for their Guide Dog training is serious work!
Ah, I just learned that Michael & Rosselle try to attend the annual area Field Day for Guide Dog puppies & their raisers, so my friends have had the opportunity to meet him, and have appreciated his support of the local program.
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I enjoyed this book so much ...I was MADE to read this book by a friend ( thank you my friend !)
I learnt so very much from this book...I couldn't put it down ! It should be required reading in schools too.
I enjoyed it so much I bought books as gifts for friends ..they all greatly enjoyed them too.
While you are reading this man's story , imagine yourself in his shoes. He is an inspiration to us all.