Weekly Tails From Southeastern Guide Dogs
'Paws For Patriots' Matches Vets, Guide Dogs
On this Independence Day weekend, we couldn’t think of a better time to spotlight Southeastern Guide Dogs' Paws for Patriots program and a couple remarkable graduates.
Paws for Patriots was started in 2006 and pairs visually impaired veterans with professionally trained guide dogs. Like all of Southeastern Guide Dogs' visually impaired students, the veterans spend 26 days on campus learning the intricacies of working with a guide. In the past five years, Paws for Patriots has matched more than 150 veterans with guide dogs. Here are two of those teams: Michael Jernigan & Brittani Jernigan, 32, is a United States Marine Corporal who was medically retired in December of 2005 after being blinded by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Aside from taking his sight, the explosion also crushed his entire forehead, severely injured his right hand and left knee and left him with a traumatic brain injury. After working hard to…
maryann clark
12:25 pm on Sunday, April 28, 2013
I am trying to get an exact address or phone number to support Paws for Patriots, can you help with this, MaryAnn clark mclark10.3@verizon.net tanks more ›