THE STORY OF CAPTAIN BARRY GALFANO \”In his own words.\”

When Barry was just ten, he began training his first German Shepherd. \”I wanted him to be just like Rin Tin Tin,\” he said. The basic course for police dogs and their handlers is sixteen weeks. Training the dogs to find dead bodies, narcotics, and other search and rescue tasks takes another twelve weeks – that’s a total of twenty-eight weeks, almost a half year. Barry supervised all the dogs who responded to the attacks in NYC on 9/11.

Barry’s long hours at Ground Zero over the span of many months is the reason, his doctors say, he got cancer. After a superhuman struggle against the disease, Barry finally succumbed to his illness on June 26, 2011.

Here’s a video of what Barry had to say just weeks before he died (WARNING: May be disturbing to some readers): via apbweb.com