“This is a nice sounding story, but I’d like to remind the peeps that in WW I Britain alone lost over 484,o00 horses. After the war, thousands and thousands of horses were sold as work horses or just abandoned. In WWII soldiers lowered mice and canaries behind enemy lines to see if they died from bad air. In Vietnam dogs searched for traps and weapons caches. They died of the heat or their injuries. Those that lived were abandoned when the war ended. It is estimated that during the ’90s some 75,000 animals died in Afghanistan, mainly due to land mines.We are the hidden victims of war. You can read about animals during war HERE.”
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Medical researchers, and their allies in the armed forces, awarded military-style medals to animals in laboratories to emphasize the martial significance of animal experimentation. Here, Army Surgeon General Major General Norman T. Kirk, on behalf of the Friends of Medical Research, bestows medals upon research dogs Trixie and Josie “for outstanding services to humanity.” Photo and text courtesy of Wikipedia…Gypsy photo courtesy of KarenFayeth, all rights reserved. Video uploaded to YouTube by sgtreckless2010
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