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No Buddy Left Behind, Terri Crisp em World Reading Circle (Fevereiro 2013)

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Terri Crisp creates an organization to US troops' pets home Iraq almost by accident; it starts with responding to one plea from one soldier who has adopted an Iraqi dog and has realized that a)the dog has no chance if left behind when he's rotated home, and b)there is absolutely no existing legal mechanism for getting his pet out of Iraq. After months of contacting every American rescue group he can find, he reaches Terri and her group--and she decides they're going to try. Just this once, just this one dog.

Of course, the whole undertaking proves enormously complex, requiring Terri to build contacts and relationships with US, Iraqi, and Kuwaiti military officers, government officials, airline employees, and transport companies. Once those relationships are in place, there's always another dog or cat, or three, or a dozen, dearly loved by American soldiers who've put their lives on the line for this country, and desperate need of private rescue because there's no way for the soldiers to take them out on military transports.

It isn't just the complexity. The Iraqi end of the effort is actively dangerous for everyone involved, for the pets, the soldiers, the Iraqis who help them, and Terri and anyone else who accompanies her into Iraq to pick up the animals. Even after they are out of Iraqi airspace, the animals aren't truly safe until they are on American soil. It's an exhausting, frequently terrifying, emotionally draining, but ultimately emotionally rewarding undertaking. Terri Crisp tells her story beautifully, and Nicole Vilencia narrates it beautifully, too.

Highly recommended.

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LisCarey | 4 outras críticas | Sep 19, 2018 |
The organizer of a major retriever of local animals in Iraq and Afghanistan that became critical to our troops. This is Not about military dogs trained to help our military discover IEDs but rather the animals who voluntarily took on the roles of protector, warning device, as well as providing an essential warming contact. Not the best written book and only from the viewpoint of the rescuer but a quick read.
 
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abycats | 4 outras críticas | May 11, 2018 |
This book was SO well written, and the stories so heartfelt that it was hard to give it anything other than five stars. We see so much these days about our Canine Service Animals, our Canine Veterans, but understand so little of what can happen to them when their service is done. This book explains the lengths that are gone to to bring those veterans home safely and does so by sharing the stories of the joys when the animals make it home. Don't read this book without a box of tissues handy.
 
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cedargrove | 4 outras críticas | Jun 24, 2017 |
This is such a great story about how military members fight to bring their animal companions him with them from war zones.
 
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macfiar | 4 outras críticas | Apr 24, 2014 |

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Obras
1
Membros
49
Popularidade
#320,875
Avaliação
½ 4.5
Críticas
5
ISBN
12