[Vision2020] Cat Saved A Soldier & Fate Brought Them Together Forever

[Debi Robinson-Smith]

Amen from the choir!

Tom, you are a treasure!

Debi R-S

On 3/15/2019 1:00 PM, Nicholas Gier wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> I always enjoy your cat posts but this one was a real tear jerker. 
> Thanks for sharing this amazing story.
> And thanks for all that you continue to do for our community.
> Nick
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:12 AM Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com 
> <mailto:moscowcares at moscow.com>> wrote:
>
>     Courtesy of /I Heart Cats/ at:
>
>     https://iheartcats.com/cat-saved-a-soldier-fate-brought-them-together-forever/?utm_campaign=IHC-Email-Newsletter-031519&utm_medium=0000&utm_source=IHC-Email-Newsletter-031519&_ke=eyJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJ0aGFuc2VuQG1vc2Nvdy5jb20iLCAia2xfY29tcGFueV9pZCI6ICJtektuNjkifQ%3D%3D
>
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>
>
>       Cat Saved A Soldier & Fate Brought Them Together Forever
>
>     If you believe that pets have the power to change our lives, and
>     rescues save us in return for saving them, the story below is sure
>     to pull at your heartstrings.
>
>     When veteran and Purple Heart recipient Joshua Marnio was serving
>     in Iraq, he heard an explosion nearby and was showered with
>     debris. Although he survived the attack with no visual injuries,
>     he suffered from multiple concussions and a traumatic brain
>     injury, according to a story by 11 Alive.
>     Marnio was eventually relocated to Ft. Riley in Kansas, and
>     although he was back on US soil, the residual effects of the
>     ordeal in Iraq began to take their toll.
>
>     “I was waking up and going to sleep with headaches,” he said in
>     the story. “It really tests your metal when nobody believes you.
>     It gets to the point where it felt like no one understands.”
>
>     When life felt too tough to bear, the soldier typed up a suicide
>     note and stood outside his barracks, in the rain, to smoke his
>     last cigarette.
>
>     That’s when he met a stray tuxedo cat … and everything changed.
>
>     It’s amazing that Scout first appeared in Marnio’s life at the
>     exact right time, and even more incredible that they were reunited
>     a second time.
>
>     This story is a beautiful testament to the powerful impact that
>     pets can have on our lives – including saving them.
>
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>
>     Video . . .
>
>     https://youtu.be/PamDE6IVQ0A
>
>     ———————————————
>
>     Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
>     "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
>     http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>     Tom Hansen
>     Moscow, Idaho
>
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> -- 
>
> A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know 
> they shall never sit in.
>
> -Greek proverb
>
> “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. 
> Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without 
> guidance from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause 
> lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage 
> to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to 
> use your own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.
>
> --Immanuel Kant
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