Soldier's Iraqi puppy arrives in US, tail wagging By FREDERIC J. FROMMER (Associated Press Writer) From Associated Press October 20, 2008 7:30 PM EDT
CHANTILLY, Virginia - A black puppy decked out in a red, white and blue bandanna jumped out of his crate and wagged his tail at the airport Monday, three flights and two days after leaving Iraq en route to his new home with a U.S. soldier.
Army Spc. Gwen Beberg of Minneapolis says she couldn't have made it through her 13-month deployment without Ratchet, who she and another soldier rescued from a burning pile of trash in May.
Ratchet, wearing a dog-bone-shaped collar with its name, will spend two nights in a kennel before flying to Minneapolis, where Beberg's parents will pick him up. Beberg is scheduled to return home next month.
"I'm very excited that Ratchet will be waiting for me when I get home from Iraq! Words can't describe it," Beberg said in an e-mail to friends and family. "I hope that Ratchet's story will inspire people to continue the efforts to bring more service members' animals home from Iraq and Afghanistan."
Cute story. Love dogs and cats. However, would much rather the effort was spent bringing home our solders and not in body bags or coffins either. Damn Bush! May he rot in the 10th inner cricle in Hell forever.
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Soldier's Iraqi puppy arrives in US, tail wagging
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
October 20, 2008 7:30 PM EDT
CHANTILLY, Virginia - A black puppy decked out in a red, white and blue bandanna jumped out of his crate and wagged his tail at the airport Monday, three flights and two days after leaving Iraq en route to his new home with a U.S. soldier.
Army Spc. Gwen Beberg of Minneapolis says she couldn't have made it through her 13-month deployment without Ratchet, who she and another soldier rescued from a burning pile of trash in May.
Ratchet, wearing a dog-bone-shaped collar with its name, will spend two nights in a kennel before flying to Minneapolis, where Beberg's parents will pick him up. Beberg is scheduled to return home next month.
"I'm very excited that Ratchet will be waiting for me when I get home from Iraq! Words can't describe it," Beberg said in an e-mail to friends and family. "I hope that Ratchet's story will inspire people to continue the efforts to bring more service members' animals home from Iraq and Afghanistan."
Cute story. Love dogs and cats. However, would much rather the effort was spent bringing home our solders and not in body bags or coffins either. Damn Bush! May he rot in the 10th inner cricle in Hell forever.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/20/mccain-heckle/
Unfortunately, the squirrel is going for McCain.
One of those oppressed minority Hollywood Republicans.
They get all the nuts. Naturally, they get all the squirrels.
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