Unconditional honor : wounded warriors and their dogs

Summary: For dog lovers and military families, a comprehensive and heartfelt collection of first-hand stories and in-depth reporting about how service, therapy, and companion dogs are changing the lives of active and retired military personnel injured in action - With more than thirty pages of color photographs.

Record details

ISBN: 1493003291
ISBN: 9781493003297
Physical Description: xviii, 234 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
print
Publisher: Guilford, Connecticut : LP, [2015]
Distributor: [Lanham, Maryland] : Distributed by National Book Network

Content descriptions

General Note:

Publisher's name on jacket: Lyons Press.

Formatted Contents Note:

In their own words -- Healing heroes -- "Someone to watch over me" -- Life with Tali -- "From the front line to the finish line" -- MST: healing the wounds -- Agent Orange and Southeast Asia -- A career change -- Operation Red Dawn and the Dirty Deuce Platoon -- TBI: from surviving to thriving -- Good-byes and new beginnings -- Moving past physical wounds -- "He saved me from myself" -- A purposeful life with Auggie -- To the rescue -- "The right stuff" -- The making of a service dog -- Pups behind prison walls -- Active-duty troops -- Looking forward -- Appendix. Service dog organizations and groups.