From Baghdad with Love : A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava

from bead-nut

Great story - Quick read that makes one feel good. Lava sounds like a really unique character, as does his human.May all the people, companies and animal groups that help evacuate military personnel's animal companions find a special welcome in Heaven. Those who have never loved an animal like th...

from jrbeach

The dog story itself is not really long enough for a book, so the authors allow themselves to ramble off on tangents. My copy was an audio book, so I found the recitiations of car bombings etc. a little tedious, since I couldn't just skip over those parts, but I didn't find the non-dog discussion...

from Narilka

Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman is a Marine stationed in Fallujah, Iraq. The US military has strict rules about this kind of thing. Prohibited activities for service members under General Order A-1 include adopting as pets or mascots, caring for or feeding any type of any domestic or wild animal....

from debs4jc

A US officer (Kopelman) and his troops come across a stray puppy while clearing an abandoned building in Iraq. Not wanting to kill the puppy, as they are supposed to, they adopt him, name him Lava after their company, and hide him from the powers that be. Kopelman tries to keep his distance from ...

from LibraryCin

A group of Marines in Iraq found a puppy in an abandoned building they took over. They named the puppy Lava, and despite a military order not to care for any animals, the Marines fell for the cute little guy, and Kopelman started to worry about what would happen to Lava when they left. He did eve...