Yes, my heart goes out to his handler, whoever that is, and we shall never know who.
It could possibly have been a Special Forces soldier, Captain Richard Holloway of the Royal Engineers, age 29, who was killed while on a mission about the date that Colonel was captured.
My heart goes out to that soldier's family as well, and to any who have been killed in action, including the military working dogs.
I am sorry in many ways that dogs have to be used in war like this. They are innocents really, responding only as they have been trained, and doing that because of the love and loyalty they have for their handlers.
Yet they are brave souls indeed, putting that love, loyalty and training above any fears they could naturally feel.
It's interesting that the working dogs are given a higher rank than that of their handler. Colonel's handler might have been a Major. The reason they are given a higher rank, apparently, is so the soldiers will always remember to respect them.
An outward sign of something they must instinctively know in their hearts.
Quite a heart-rending affair....war. For all those brave souls and their loved ones, including the dogs.
A song for Colonel...and for all the soldiers:
It could possibly have been a Special Forces soldier, Captain Richard Holloway of the Royal Engineers, age 29, who was killed while on a mission about the date that Colonel was captured.
My heart goes out to that soldier's family as well, and to any who have been killed in action, including the military working dogs.
I am sorry in many ways that dogs have to be used in war like this. They are innocents really, responding only as they have been trained, and doing that because of the love and loyalty they have for their handlers.
Yet they are brave souls indeed, putting that love, loyalty and training above any fears they could naturally feel.
It's interesting that the working dogs are given a higher rank than that of their handler. Colonel's handler might have been a Major. The reason they are given a higher rank, apparently, is so the soldiers will always remember to respect them.
An outward sign of something they must instinctively know in their hearts.
Quite a heart-rending affair....war. For all those brave souls and their loved ones, including the dogs.
A song for Colonel...and for all the soldiers:
