Tag: vets

How Service Dogs Help Vets with PTSD

August 1, 2022
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A service dog can lower the severity of a U.S. military veteran’s post-traumatic stress disorder, according to past research. Hoping to learn more about this therapeutic bond, researchers worked with 82 vets and their trained service dogs. Their study was published July 27 in the journal PLOS One. “This study provides new information about how…

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Aging WW II Vets Share Stories With Next Generation

December 31, 2021
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“Soldiering in Patton’s army was tough,” remembers 97-year-old Ernie Rabineau. “We called him ‘Old Blood and Guts.’ We needed people like that because Germany was a strong, powerful, and tough enemy.” Widowed for the past seven years, Ernie lives alone in a comfortable three-bedroom ranch-style home on a country road near Attica, Michigan. Ernie is…

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Geronimo the Alpaca Is Put Down, Ending High-Profile Legal Fight With UK Authorities

August 31, 2021
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The British alpaca made famous by his owner’s dogged high-profile attempts to save him from being killed despite testing positive for bovine tuberculosis, has finally been put down. It ends his owner’s four-year-long legal battle with authorities over the validity of the test. The Department of Rural Affairs on Aug. 31 announced that Geronimo the…

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