KRCB-FM: WordTemple

Poetry, Dogs and Veterans - July 17, 2013


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Host Katherine Hastings interviews Dr. Bonnie Bergin, founder of Bergin University for Canine Studies, and two veterans who are the first instructors for the new Dogs Helping Veterans program at Bergin, Steve Moore and Daniel Fudge. Tune in to learn how this new program is helping our veterans of war suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder live fuller, healthier lives by working with service dogs.
Also - recorded live at the WordTemple Poetry Series, Iraq war veteran turned poet Hugh Martin reads from his award-winning book of poems The Stick Soldiers. Martin served six years as an M1A1 Tanker, participating in hundreds of missions including raids, conducting foot patrols, clearing routes for IEDS, disposing of unexploded ordinance and searching thousands of Iraqi vehicles. A graduate at Arizona State University, Martinis a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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