In this comprehensive and gorgeously illustrated book, Cathy Scott and
Clay Myers show how service and therapy dogs are having a profound
impact on the lives of military personnel injured in action. Not only do
our veterans deal with physical injuries, but they often return with
psychological issues that can be treated with help, companionship, and
love from working canines. Through moving stories and color photographs,
Unconditional Honor highlights the nearly forty-year history of working
dogs helping wounded veterans, the mental and physical combat traumas
that are mitigated by the dogs, the selection and training of the dogs,
including rescued canines, and what the future holds. Featured in the
book are inspiring personal accounts of what the dogs mean to veterans,
and how their lives have been forever changed and even saved since
adopting canines. In addition to the remarkable healing journeys of
wounded warriors and their canines, this book showcases the various
groups, formed originally to train dogs for the blind and the physically
disabled that now embrace military services, that provide, at no cost,
returning troops with dogs to make them whole again after surviving the
reality of war.