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War Dogs! Memorial
March Reserve Base Field Museum
by: Don Poss

War Dogs Memorial - As a former USAF K-9 handler (Ðà Nàng, Blackie, 1965-1966), I agree with Tom Mitchell that March Field Museum, Riverside, California, is the perfect location for the first War Dogs monument. A prime location, both poetic and highly appropriate for honoring War Dogs and their partners. At sunset, the towering monument silhouettes against amber California skies while quietly overlooking the green manicured lawns of our nation's largest veterans cemetery where over 114,000 are at final rest. The War Dog and Handler symbolically watches over the park-like cemetery... while performing a last patrol on the outer perimeter around the giant Air Base, formerly known as March Air Force Base. (Photo: Blackie (X129), was put down after six years of faithful heroic service, from Ðà Nàng 1965 to Tan Son Nhut AB, late 1970). War Dogs Memorial - As a former USAF K-9 handler (Ðà Nàng, Blackie, 1965-1966), I agree with Tom Mitchell that March Field Museum, Riverside, California, is the perfect location for the first War Dogs monument. A prime location, both poetic and highly appropriate for honoring War Dogs and their partners. At sunset, the towering monument silhouettes against amber California skies while quietly overlooking the green manicured lawns of our nation's largest veterans cemetery where over 114,000 are at final rest. The War Dog and Handler symbolically watches over the park-like cemetery... while performing a last patrol on the outer perimeter around the giant Air Base, formerly known as March Air Force Base. (Photo: Blackie (X129), was put down after six years of faithful heroic service, from Ðà Nàng 1965 to Tan Son Nhut AB, late 1970).

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