When a scrawny, stray mutt befriended National Guard soldiers from New York while on patrol in Afghanistan, she was quickly adopted as their mascot and named “Sheba”. She was loved and became part of their “family” — eating their MRE’s and beef jerky and sometimes, going out on patrol with them. Sheba eventually had 7 puppies that the soldiers named Cadence, Rocky, Sarah, Jack, Buckeye, Breezy and Harris. Relatives of the soldiers began sending them bags of dog food from home for Sheba and her growing family. Then the guys got the news… their base would be closed as part of the U.S. draw down in Afghanistan. It broke their hearts to think of leaving Sheba and her 7 pups and they decided that just wasn’t happening.

They decided to try to bring them all back to the States to live with them. So through contacts at home, and the critical help of a Long Island group called Guardians of Rescue and the group Nowzad Dogs, which has for years collected donations to bring dogs back from combat zones, they were able to get Sheba and all 7 of her puppies out of the sandbox.

The soldiers were re-united with Sheba and her pups, who are now six months old, just this past week. Sheba, who is already a service dog, is being assessed to be a PTSD therapy dog (the best therapy dog any soldier could know I imagine!) and the puppies are all going to soldiers’ homes.

Yeah. It’s a sweet story to be sure. If you can donate to either of the dog rescue groups, see the their links above. And as always, God bless our troops, who go through so much when deployed yet they still cared for a homeless stray and her puppies.

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Great Weekend Blog Reading Links!

Teach at Pirate’s Cove is blogging about “Majuro Declaration Calls For Everyone To Stop Breathing”.

The Other McCain has many good blog posts up including this one by Stacy on “You Stay Classy, Atheists!” Make sure you read the comments.

Phineas at Sister Toldjah has up a post on “Delusional: Obama admin thought they could convince Iran to abandon #Syria.”

Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has up a great post today on “The “Assad v. al-Qaeda” narrative may not be what it appears.”

Jeff at Gay Patriot has up an interesting blog post called “S&P fights back.” Go check it out!

Have you been to Acting School with Nick Searcy? You need to go now! Don’t forget to “Subscribe” because it’s awesome. 🙂

Glenn Reynolds or Instapundit has many great posts at his blog hub from all over the blogosphere so go check them out! And you can read Glenn’s latest column in USA Today here.

Emily at NakedDC has a blog post up on “John McCain might have to impeach Barack Obama over Syria. Or something”. 🙂

Dana at The First Street Journal has up a great post called “Why I Never Complain About My Job.”

Deebow over at Blackfive has up a great post about “Anyone in the Media want to ask Howard Dean About This?”

Max at MaxRedline has up a great post called “Flogging On.” More idiocy by the pork-belly leftists, in power, here in Oregon.

Jammie at Jammie Wearing Fools has up a post on “Obama’s Army Deserts Him During Syria Debate.” go read it!

This Ain’t Hell has quite a few good posts up today including this one by Jonn on “Seven more Taliban released.” Jonn doesn’t mention if they were given RPG’s as welcome home presents.W

As always, Michelle Obama’s Mirror has up a fun blog post called “Warning: alcohol, candles and twerking don’t mix.” Make sure you watch the video. 🙂

Donald Douglas at American Power has up this blog post on “I Hate White People’ — New York Man Left Brain-Dead After Racial Hate Crime in Union Square.”

Soopermexican has up several fun posts including this one “Three Fallen Foreign Policy Angels On Obama’s Shoulder.”

Evil Blogger Lady has up a video called “Time To Wake Up! Leningrad: Fish / Ленинград: Рыба.” You won’t be able to quit watching it. 🙂

Ed has up this at Hot Air “Will Obama ignore the House on Syria attack?” It’s a really good post. The answer, imho, can only be yes. He needs the distraction.

and finally, Ace at AoSHQ has a great post – a movie review actually – up “Movie Review: Now You See Me.” And trust me, its epic. Make sure you read the comments!

Have a terrific weekend!