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« on: August 17, 2025, 10:13:10 am »
Growing demand for service dogs unleashes congressional effort to fund their training, placement with disabled veterans

By LINDA F. HERSEY STARS AND STRIPES •
 
Hank Ford, a 54-year-old Army and Marine Corps veteran, was dozing one morning in February after his wife left for work, when his service dog, Tommy, started barking and pawing his chest to wake up — something he had never done before. Ford, a retired staff sergeant who served in the military for 20 years, said he got up thinking the Labrador retriever wanted to go outside.

But Tommy instead kept barking and jumping up to paw his chest. Ford said he felt dizzy and realized his heart was racing. He took his blood pressure, saw his “heart rate was out of control” and rushed to a local hospital. Doctors said he had atrial fibrillation, which causes the heart rhythm to spike, and was at imminent risk of a stroke.

Ford underwent an emergency procedure to shock his heart back to a normal rhythm and credits Tommy for alerting him to the life-threatening problem.

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-08-15/disabled-veterans-service-dogs-legislation-18774215.html
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Re: Growing demand for service dogs unleashes congressional effort to fund their training, placement
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Quote from: rangerrebew on August 17, 2025, 10:13:10 am
Growing demand for service dogs unleashes congressional effort to fund their training, placement with disabled veterans

As it should be! :patriot:
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
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