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![photo: Sgt. James Ide and Ddaphne; Daphne back home [army.mil]
I, too, marveled at the magnificent war dogs making the rounds yesterday in Rebecca Frankel’s Foreign Policy photo essay. But the stories of the dogs and their handlers in action… it’ll break your heart.
British Lance Corporal Liam Tasker’s springer spaniel, Theo, survived his handler’s death
unscathed, [but] died mere hours later. The details on the cause of Theo’s death are fuzzy: A few reports are saying the dog succumbed to stress from the attack, others say it was a seizure, and some are saying the explanation is far more plain—a broken heart.
Ddaphne, “a five-year-old Belgian Malinois who loves to fetch,” survived the attack that killed her handler, Sgt. James Ide, but
suffered severe PTSD as a result of the ordeal and the military decided she had to retire from service.
When Mandy Ide heard that Ddaphne “had not been hurt in the attack that killed her husband, she had no doubt that she wanted Ddaphne with her and the children. … ‘It’s the last connection to him.’”
Elsewhere, Frankel notes:
not every war dog will be able to make his or her home with a beloved former partner. Interested in providing a home to a retired war dog? These sites all appear to be legit and up to date. Please send in others if you know of them or more information about adopting war-dog retirees.
DoD Military Working Dog Adoption website
Military Working Dogs Foundation, Inc.
SPCA : Adopt one of the dogs “abandoned in Iraq”
More on Rebecca’s War Dog of the Week.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lks2y4ikRp1qa0rqvo1_500.jpg)
photo: Sgt. James Ide and Ddaphne; Daphne back home [army.mil]
I, too, marveled at the magnificent war dogs making the rounds yesterday in Rebecca Frankel’s Foreign Policy photo essay. But the stories of the dogs and their handlers in action… it’ll break your heart.
British Lance Corporal Liam Tasker’s springer spaniel, Theo, survived his handler’s death
unscathed, [but] died mere hours later. The details on the cause of Theo’s death are fuzzy: A few reports are saying the dog succumbed to stress from the attack, others say it was a seizure, and some are saying the explanation is far more plain—a broken heart.
Ddaphne, “a five-year-old Belgian Malinois who loves to fetch,” survived the attack that killed her handler, Sgt. James Ide, but
suffered severe PTSD as a result of the ordeal and the military decided she had to retire from service.
When Mandy Ide heard that Ddaphne “had not been hurt in the attack that killed her husband, she had no doubt that she wanted Ddaphne with her and the children. … ‘It’s the last connection to him.’”
Elsewhere, Frankel notes:
not every war dog will be able to make his or her home with a beloved former partner. Interested in providing a home to a retired war dog? These sites all appear to be legit and up to date. Please send in others if you know of them or more information about adopting war-dog retirees.
- DoD Military Working Dog Adoption website
- Military Working Dogs Foundation, Inc.
- SPCA : Adopt one of the dogs “abandoned in Iraq”
More on Rebecca’s War Dog of the Week.
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Absurdly pleasing. Photographs by Jill Krementz from the 1970s to the present: Amy Hempel, Stephen King, John Cheever, Ann Patchett, Amy Tan, Kurt Vonnegut, others
