A Dog's Adoption

The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette has a genuine tear-jerker of a story today on Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jamie Dana and the act of Congress that will be required to allow her to adopt her bomb-sniffing dog, Rex, after both were injured when a bomb exploded under the Humvee they were riding in after searching an Iraqi village. The Air Force originally said regulations prevented such adoptions until dogs are ready to be retired from service, but then worked with Rep. John E. Peterson, R-Pa., to get language inserted into the fiscal 2006 Defense appropriations bill to approve an exemption from the rules.