RE: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,162322,00.html

What a great article about a man and his dog, I tryed to do the same thing when I was in viet nam (69), but could not get results.

There is nothing better than Marines and their dogs. Had to leave Boris in Korea and I still miss him.

What else can you say? Just another example of US troops doing what we did right..caring!! Dog has always been man's best friend!! Semper Fi!!

How a man treats his dog says a lot about the man. Marines always take care of the ones who can not take care of their self. A fist of Steel and a heart of Gold.

Semper Fi

This is great. Save the dogs over there so ours over here can die. Guess those Marines over there got nothing better to do or when they come home they don't know where the nearest animal shelter is.

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Originally posted by Duster6:
This is great. Save the dogs over there so ours over here can die. Guess those Marines over there got nothing better to do or when they come home they don't know where the nearest animal shelter is.

Your immediate duty is to what you run into. He who saves just one Iraqi dog saves the entire world.

Semper Fi brothers!

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Originally posted by Duster6:
This is great. Save the dogs over there so ours over here can die. Guess those Marines over there got nothing better to do or when they come home they don't know where the nearest animal shelter is.

WHAT? ARE YOU CRAZY?

Not only do dogs here LIVE better, even dogs in shelters DIE better than most animals in the middle east.

You need to do a little research Big Guy. You give Mercy where NEEDED, NOT where its convenient. Sheesh.

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The Talmud and kindness to animals as a Biblical commandment:


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According to the Torah, if we see an animal suffering we are required to help it and, all the more so, it is forbidden to actually cause suffering to animals. While we are permitted to use animals for labor, we are not allowed to overwork an animal. A person is not permitted to eat until he has fed his animals. Even when slaughtering an animal for food, Torah law requires us to avoid causing unnecessary pain to the animal.

There are several different Scriptural sources which deal with different aspects of this teaching. The Talmud (Bava Metzia 32a-b) derives the basic concept from Exodus 23:5, "If you see the donkey of someone you hate lying under its load, you might want to refrain from helping him, but you must make every effort to help him." This is not simply an obligation to help your fellow man, but also an obligation towards the animal itself.

The law that we must feed our animals before we eat is understood from the order of the verse, "I will provide grass in your field for your cattle and you will eat and be satisfied" (Deuteronomy 11:15) which places the feeding of the cattle before our own eating.

The underlying principle of all these laws, as well as the laws of mercy to our fellow human beings, is the commandment "and you walk in His ways" (Deuteronomy 28:9) - to follow the ways of God. In Tehillim (Psalms) 145:9 we are taught, "God is good to all, and His mercy is on all His creations." Just as God is merciful to all His creations, so too must we be merciful to all His creations. In this merit God will have mercy on us. Kindness and mercy are among the defining traits of the Jewish people and we are taught that anyone who shows kindness to animals demonstrates that he is descended from Abraham.

The Talmud tells us that the great sage, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi, the compiler of the Mishna (the basic framework of the Talmud), was punished for an incident where he was insufficiently caring for an animal, and he was only relieved from his punishment when he showed mercy on some kittens.

There is a story told in the book Charedim by Rabbi Elazar Ezkari (d. 1600) about the Arizal - Rabbi Yitzchak Ashkenazi--the famous mystic of Tzefas, Israel--who was a contemporary of Rabbi Ezkari (who also lived in Tzefas).

The Arizal once looked at the face of a certain Torah scholar and told him, "Your face is marked by the sin of causing pain to animals." The scholar was very disturbed. He investigated the matter and discovered that his wife did not feed their chickens in the morning but instead allowed them to wander through the yard and street to peck for food. He instructed his wife to prepare for them a mixture of bran-flour and water every morning. Shortly after he had done this he met the Arizal again and the Arizal informed him, without knowing about what he had done, that the sin was gone.

Hum Bug to all of you. I see a dog in Iraq I kill it. Go to hell Muslim dog.

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Originally posted by Duster6:
Hum Bug to all of you. I see a dog in Iraq I kill it. Go to hell Muslim dog.

SgtSchaeffersMom: Forgive him and pray for his soul, for he knows not whereof he speaks. . . .

It cost about $4,000 for complete room and board, airfare and care for each one of these dogs and yet we have combat wounded females in our military who have to request female items for that time of the month from others or for family members to help out. Lets send them a dog next time. Lets don't adopt one of our kids in the states. Lets go to Africa and adopt. Or better yet if the Marines want a dog so bad why don't you all send them some from over here? McCain is right. We will be over there for a hundred years.

You can tell an awful lot about a man by the way he treats the most helpless around him. Duster 6, you have embarassed yourself and bring dishonor to the wings you display with your sign in.

Thats the way our country is now. You can risk your life for another human being but say something bad about a dog and you bring dishonor to everything in your past. Oh Well.

This is a heartwarming story, one of the few to come out of the war in Iraq. Go Nubs!
DeGeneres is an animal lover, but I'd have second - and third - thoughts before I went on her show.

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Originally posted by Duster6:
This is great. Save the dogs over there so ours over here can die. Guess those Marines over there got nothing better to do or when they come home they don't know where the nearest animal shelter is.

Are you serious?
Respectfully, SUNLINER81

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Originally posted by Duster6:
Hum Bug to all of you. I see a dog in Iraq I kill it. Go to hell Muslim dog.

Kidding, drunk or azzhat, I haven't quite figured you out yet...
Respectfully, SUNLINER81

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Originally posted by Duster6:
It cost about $4,000 for complete room and board, airfare and care for each one of these dogs and yet we have combat wounded females in our military who have to request female items for that time of the month from others or for family members to help out. Lets send them a dog next time. Lets don't adopt one of our kids in the states. Lets go to Africa and adopt. Or better yet if the Marines want a dog so bad why don't you all send them some from over here? McCain is right. We will be over there for a hundred years.

Duster6 has lost his brain, do dah, do dah.
Duster's gonna make another ridiculous post, all the live long day. Oh the do dah day, oh the do dah day, Duster6 has lost his brain oh the do dah day...
C'mon man, lighten up...
Respectfully, SUNLINER81

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Originally posted by Duster6:
Thats the way our country is now. You can risk your life for another human being but say something bad about a dog and you bring dishonor to everything in your past. Oh Well.

Look, maybe you are just trying to illustrate a point. The thing is, the Marine became attached to that particular dog, so he wants to get it home, so lighten up on all the rhetoric, we get your point.
This is one Marine and one dog, it's a little piece of humanity in a war...
Yeah, I over reacted on the post above, but you gotta admit, it does ryhm[sp?]...
LOL Respectfully, SUNLINER81

SUNLINER81;
Thanks for bringing me back. I was so depressed this past week. Having the flu. Having to cancel my trip to the White Mountains of NH. I just took one too many lexipro's. I'm back on track now. I just needed someone to wake me up. I love all dogs. God bless our Marines.

Good for them bringin' the little guy home...just a ray of light in the dark night of war. My dogs and I will look for 'em at Dog Beach...about a mile from my house in Ocean Beach.

It is a heart warming story of the love of a dog and his master.It is amazing to me that the dog track the Marines for 70 miles.I am glad the dog made it out safely.I pray his master comes home safe soon. You don't hear enough good stories about human compassion and our troops having a positive effect on all life over there.Semper Fi Brother. AO 6541