More than 40 years later, the gratitude and love Dorr, 59, feels for the dog he served with is as strong as ever. And it's for this reason that Dorr, president of the Vietnam Dog Handler Association, drove from his Yoakum, Texas, home to be in Southern California this week.
About 200 Vietnam War dog handlers, who were trained to read and communicate with their canine partners, have gathered for a reunion. And on Saturday they'll join an expected several thousand others for the 10th anniversary rededication of the War Dog Memorial at the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/02/12/war.dogs/index.html?hpt=C1
Chester says that being left over there was one of the hardest experiences he has known. Not just for him. He could shift and make his way out. No. the pain for him was the realization that the US Army did, could, order its dogs abandoned. Most of the handlers, with few exceptions, were despondent. The dogs were confused.
After he and the other dogs in his platoon were turned over to the Vietnamese, who had no intentions of working them, but of killing and eating the meatier of them, he got himself and most of the other dogs out.
They lived as a pack of strays in the jungles of SE Asia for a long time afterward, until they found sanctuary with a former US friend, also betrayed and left behind. They also owed a lot to a pack of werewolves. But this is all part of a story that Chester would have to tell. Not mine to tell.
Warin
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Chester will Return
Chester asked me to post that he will return, hopefully soon. He is on the road.
Caitlyn is doing well, amazingly well. She is taking to werelife better than any I have ever seen. I am mentoring and teaching her a lot, and she is picking it all up quickly.
School will be a challenge. She will only be able to attend a couple years of human school at a time. The flip side of that is that she will live a very long time, given the rate she will age, in relation to humans that is.
Our pack has been engaged in interwere dialog with local werewolves. Some in the pack are not happy about this. I am good with it. But, as you know, I am a half-breed, weredog and werewolf. Has its pros and cons.
I cannot say where Chester is. I will leave that to him, for when he returns.
Warin
Caitlyn is doing well, amazingly well. She is taking to werelife better than any I have ever seen. I am mentoring and teaching her a lot, and she is picking it all up quickly.
School will be a challenge. She will only be able to attend a couple years of human school at a time. The flip side of that is that she will live a very long time, given the rate she will age, in relation to humans that is.
Our pack has been engaged in interwere dialog with local werewolves. Some in the pack are not happy about this. I am good with it. But, as you know, I am a half-breed, weredog and werewolf. Has its pros and cons.
I cannot say where Chester is. I will leave that to him, for when he returns.
Warin
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