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Speaker 1: Stand correct it Tomorrow is Veterans Day observed. Saturday is

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Speaker 1: officially Veterans Day. There you go. So we've had our

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Speaker 1: friends from this next organization we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: in a second and several times. Canines for Warriors is

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Speaker 1: just an incredible, incredible concept, incredible payoff. They understand that

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Speaker 1: a lot of people who serve our country come back

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Speaker 1: to live the normal lives that they deserve and they've

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Speaker 1: worked hard for. But sometimes with PTSD, PTSD issues and

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Speaker 1: just all sorts of issues dealing with mental health. It's

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Speaker 1: not that easy. But we know for a fact that

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Speaker 1: having a dog in the house can change everything. Canines

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Speaker 1: for Warriors is just an amazing, amazing way to show

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Speaker 1: love to the people who have served our country and

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Speaker 1: continue to serve. Every day we support they support our nations,

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Speaker 1: disabled veterans or restoring their confidence independence with a dog.

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Speaker 1: And you're sitting there going, oh god, I get it.

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Speaker 1: It's totally right. It is. And I know I know

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Speaker 1: that you and your station are having a telethon for

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Speaker 1: Kanons for Warriors. Is it tomorrow, Froggy, you.

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Speaker 2: Are doing it all day tomorrow raising money for us.

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Speaker 2: We can save the good thing is is you're saving

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Speaker 2: veterans and you're also saving dogs. These are dogs that

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Speaker 2: are rescues. They are then trained to become service animals,

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Speaker 2: and so it's it's a question of who rescued who.

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Speaker 2: We rescue the dog, and then the dog rescues our veteran.

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Speaker 1: Wow, very well, put, I know Gandhi's crying. This dog's amazing.

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Speaker 1: So do you want to meet David and Doc? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Now do you know which one is the veteran and

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Speaker 1: which one's the dog?

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Speaker 2: I do?

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Speaker 1: Okay, what if Doc is a veteran and David is

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Speaker 1: the dog, that would be great.

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Speaker 3: Doc is a little dreamboat and Dave's pretty cool too.

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Speaker 1: All right, So David and Doc I want from our

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Speaker 1: friends at Kanons for Warriors here to represent Where are they? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I forget, there's a chicken parm stop for Doc. On. Hey, David,

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Speaker 1: come on in. How are you pleased to meet you?

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Speaker 1: Hello to dog.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, isn't he so sweet?

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Speaker 1: What an honor to have you in here? No, believe me,

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Speaker 1: it's mine really absolutely, get stay close to that microphone.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Veterans weekend, here we go. Thank thank

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Speaker 1: you for serving our country. My pleasure. So tell your story,

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Speaker 1: especially as it was. However, you want to tell your story,

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Speaker 1: and let's lead it up to Doc being the punch

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Speaker 1: line on the story. It's a great ending.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, He's a starter show anyway. Some like most veterans, right,

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Speaker 4: we get deployed to areas that when you know, we

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Speaker 4: sometimes we come home with some things that we wish

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Speaker 4: to we will left there and with me, uh, PTSD

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Speaker 4: a father, even as an employee. You know, I served

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Speaker 1: That's want to live.

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Speaker 4: No, absolutely not. I'm sure my kids didn't want to

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Speaker 4: the baggage you brought back from serving and then you

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Speaker 4: Then you lost your mom. Yeah, yea, and so that

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Speaker 4: of people talk about flashbacks, and I hadn't had any

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Speaker 1: What's a flashback like? And from your point of.

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Speaker 4: View, when you're here but you're not present, so you

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Speaker 1: So here you are with a family, and you got

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Speaker 4: I tell you, I've been trained so much to succeed.

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Speaker 4: No one told me what to do when I failed.

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Speaker 1: And so there's also that feeling of failure, like like,

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Speaker 1: Here I am. I'm failing myself and you feel like

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Speaker 1: but in hindsight, I'm sure there were moments where you

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Speaker 1: It's about ebb and flow. But there also are other

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Speaker 1: ways other than traditional medicines and this and that. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: and where DOC comes out. Okay, so knines for warriors.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how did you make the connection with them?

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Speaker 1: And how did how did you learn that a life

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Speaker 1: with DOC is probably going to change a lot in

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Speaker 4: Honestly, I never even know they were doing this. It

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Speaker 4: was another veteran service organization in New Jersey that kind

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Speaker 4: of said, hey, why don't you try this? And they

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Speaker 4: were family friends. And at that point I was like,

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Speaker 4: really a dog, Like I already have enough problem telling

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Speaker 4: people that take medicine. Now I'm supposed to walk down

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Speaker 1: But dogs are not easy. No. I got two of

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Speaker 1: them and when it went in one day, I lose them.

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Speaker 1: I'll have PTS PTSD dog issues. WHOA. But the thing

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Speaker 1: is is you did make the connection with Knines for

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Speaker 1: Warriors for Warriors, absolutely, and then through a process DOC

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Speaker 1: came into your life. Doc was was was uh was

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Speaker 1: it was a total save as well? Oh? Absolutely, So

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Speaker 4: So, you know, one of the program is great because

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Speaker 4: it's it's saving two lives at once. Right, you're saving

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Speaker 4: a dog's life and you're saving a veterans life. And

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Speaker 4: of just the same relationship between the dog and their owner. Right,

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Speaker 4: just works. And then when I went down to Kanas Warriors,

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Speaker 4: it was just like I was scared. Honestly, I was

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Speaker 1: Were you doubting? Like what are we doing here? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: The dogs are great and all, but how is this

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Speaker 4: I completely you have a second thoughts. And then I

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Speaker 4: ready to accept it, you know, and boom here it is.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow. And so how long have you been with Doc?

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be together five years in April to talk

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Speaker 1: about and a Gandhi is bursting with questions over here,

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Speaker 1: But I have one more question for you. Talk about

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Speaker 1: how you recognize without a doubt that having Doc in

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Speaker 1: I need Doc right now. This is a doc moment, Like,

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Speaker 1: what's that like for you?

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Speaker 4: No, I can tell you this scientifically, right through medicine.

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Speaker 4: that right there in and of itself is amazing. But

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Speaker 4: being secluded to my house, now being little league coaches,

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Speaker 1: May I assume that there are still moments where like, okay,

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Speaker 1: having a moment, because that's being human as well, but

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Speaker 1: also it's multiplied by your life experience. And then Doc

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Speaker 1: into docs of the lives? What do you what happened?

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Speaker 1: Can you describe to us what happens to you? Physically? Intotionally?

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Speaker 4: Physically? You get connected. You get grounded, right, no matter

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Speaker 4: you know. And he just doesn't work for me in

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Speaker 1: So he knows. Oh oh yeah, he knows. They know.

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Speaker 1: It's a matter of right. You may not even recognize

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Speaker 4: He'll come up to me and he'll just kind of

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Speaker 4: yeah he knows something I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yep. Wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were talking so all the ways you were

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Speaker 3: saying he has your back and you have his back,

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Speaker 3: Can you tell us some of the things that he

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Speaker 3: does for you, like at nighttime what you were saying you.

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Speaker 4: So one of the big things for me I suffer

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Speaker 4: was like two years of night terrors, and so what

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Speaker 4: what's he doing over here? But that was he's you know,

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Speaker 4: he's a good distraction. So he broke me out of

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Speaker 4: was causing at night terror.

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Speaker 1: But he sees it, and he sees it wow, and

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Speaker 1: Get out of the trash. Awesome people. We're eating the

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