You are fortunate that whatever set of circumstances aligned for this young man or for other vets for PTSD did not happen to you. There have been sufferers of what we now know as PTSD after every war, like shell shock? We don’t know anything about this young man and what he experienced, and I think it’s really kind of rotten to denigrate the reactions of people who go to war zones and experience really horrific things like having their friends blown up right beside them just because not everyone reacts that way. We all have our weaknesses.
My grandfather served in WW2 and suffered from bad nightmares for the rest of his life, over 40 years. And yet he served admirably and with his life continually at risk. He was no snowflake.
Yeah, the whole emotional support animal thing has been stretched to allow ingenues to carry their “babies” around with them in their purses, but that is not what we are talking about here.
Cincinnati Bell may not be able to make a reasonable accomodation for an employee with a service dog, but they should just say that. Right now, it looks like they are refusing him just out of inconsideration, but it might well be that a dog is an unreasonable accomodation and we just don’t know why.
>>My grandfather served in WW2 and suffered from bad nightmares for the rest of his life, over 40 years. And yet he served admirably and with his life continually at risk. He was no snowflake.
Exactly my point. Your grandfather was no snowflake. I had an uncle who did 32 bombing missions over Europe. I had another who was a POW in Korea. I had another who endured artillery barrages in WW2 with the Purple Heart for one of them. I’ve seen a 4” seawater line blow apart at test depth on a submarine and been blinded (temporarily) and hospitalized after an electrical switchboard blew up with enough energy to instantly melt bus bars. People have endured horrible things in the military, but only this generation needs dogs to hug them constantly so they can function.