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A WWII vet helps to bring hope and help to new vets!

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This is Cash...Irvin Stovroff's golden retriever...similar to the dogs he hopes will be helping returning vets!!

This is Cash...Irvin Stovroff's golden retriever...similar to the dogs he hopes will be helping returning vets!!


If you have read my blog for a time, you know I write often about the need for service dogs to be matched with disabled veterans to help them with the tasks that they can no longer do themselves. The dogs bring the service men more than that…they bring these heroes happiness and unconditional love!!!

Well, there is a gentleman by the name of Irvin Stovroff who is now 85 years old. He currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida, but over sixty years ago he was a bombing pilot who was shot down in enemy territory. He knew he was going to be captured by the Germans, and being a person of Jewish descent, threw out his dog tags, so his German captors wouldn’t know. He was a German POW for a year before he was freed by Allied forces.

Living though his experiences gives Stovroff a drive to do what hasn’t been done for vets coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan. He feels that the vets coming home with disabilities should be able to quickly be matched with service dogs that will help them both physically and emotionally. “It is a shame.” Stovroff says about the lack of an official federal program that pairs up battle-injured veterans with guide and therapy animals that can greatly improve their rehabilitation. “I wanted to do something about it.”

And he has. Stovroff has raised $2,000,000 to match up service canines with wounded combat vets. Stovroff also feels that the federal government should be putting forth more efforts and funds to do this for the returning vets. It appears that his message has not fallen on deaf ears. Earlier this month, Rep. Ron Klein (D-Fla.) introduced legislation to help train guide dogs and other service animals for wounded veterans. It looks like Irvin has a lot of fight left in him for the vets he cares about and respects and the dogs that could help them!!!


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