Coming Home: Service Dogs Help Veterans

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This story is part of our series, “Coming Home”, a look at what the end of U.S. military involvement in Iraq means for our state. Many veterans return to Colorado with physical and mental disabilities, like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. A Colorado nonprofit is now training service dogs to help veterans with PTSD. And as Colorado Public Radio's Anna Panoka reports, it’s part of a new Department of Veterans Affairs study to gauge the impact of the animals.

[Photo: CPR/Anna Panoka]