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Is it fate? Dog links two wounded vets
CNN ^
| June 27, 2013
| Kathleen Toner
Posted on 07/04/2013 8:26:03 PM PDT by Innovative
Karen Shirk has spent 15 years matching people with service dogs that can help them with their special needs and disabilities.
With the help of her staff, she puts a lot of thought into the process to make sure each person has the right dog for them.
But one recent story -- involving an Afghanistan war veteran and a German shepherd named Gabriel -- has her convinced that larger forces are sometimes at work.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: doggieping; veterans; woundedvets
Usually I try to excerpt so people get the main points of the article, but trying that for this article wouldn't do it justice.
Please read the entire article -- get out your hankies...
To: Innovative
I’m surprised CNN would show that.
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posted on
07/04/2013 8:30:42 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; afraidfortherepublic; ...
WOOOF!
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posted on
07/04/2013 8:32:00 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Innovative
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posted on
07/04/2013 8:35:05 PM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
To: Joe 6-pack
Simply wonderful and food for the soul...God Bless that glorious woman...
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posted on
07/04/2013 8:43:00 PM PDT
by
homegroan
(Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option....)
To: Innovative
Honestly, this story tells me too many of our people are being wounded or killed for a conflict that is pointless. Bring them home now. No more nation building for barbarians.
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posted on
07/04/2013 9:14:37 PM PDT
by
Pining_4_TX
(All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
To: Joe 6-pack
Thanks for pinging me to this.
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posted on
07/04/2013 10:47:11 PM PDT
by
Altariel
("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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