Enjoyed Memorial Day feature

My wife and I have noted that the Journal Sentinel has been having feature stories on the front page more often recently. We have enjoyed this very much. Too often we are reading about political items or shootings or other bad things which the reading public does not need to make their day.

On Memorial Day the paper had a great feature, “5,000 military dogs went to Vietnam. Not a single one came back” (“Memorial to salute canine bravery”). This was an uplifting story about one small part of the military that was so important in that war.

The story of Mike Voorhees and his military dog, Satan, was so well written and it told about the importance of dogs in the military then and even now. Voorhees’ story was so poignant and needed to be told on this Memorial Day. At the conclusion of the military dog’s service in Vietnam the military dogs might have been turned over to another handler, put out to live on their own or became victims of their environment in Vietnam.

The memorial to canine military dogs and their bravery has long been overlooked, and we can be proud that this wonderful memorial has been placed at Highland Memorial Park near Neilsville. It was only as recently as the early 1990s that an American president signed legislation that all military dogs be treated as the veterans that they are.

Thank you for this great feature.

Buzz and Barb Althoen Glendale