WHAT YEAR DID IT HAPPEN
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Peggy was very close. The first Emmy Awards were presented on January 25, 1949
The formal dog guide program {seeing eye dog} was developed what year?
While there has been a long history of dogs assisting people who are blind, it was not until after World War I that a formal dog guide program was developed. A school in Pottsdam Germany trained German shepherds as guides for blinded veterans of the war, but did not stay in existence for very long.
However, an American woman living in Switzerland learned of the program and ultimately advanced the modern dog guide movement in the United States. Her name was Dorothy Harrison Eustis and she was a wealthy Philadelphian experimenting with the training of German shepherds as working dogs. When she visited the Pottsdam school, she thought the concept of a dog guide was a noble profession for which to train her own dogs. But it was not until after she wrote an article about the Pottsdam school which appeared in the November 5th, 1927 edition of The Saturday Evening Post that she had any cause to incorporate dog guide training for her dogs.The first dog guide school in America. Incorporated on January 29, 1929, it was called The Seeing Eye, after the article Ms. Eustis wrote.
All I can find is this:
Name: Harold George Bennett
Date of Birth: 16 October 1940
Date of Loss: 29 December 1964 South Vietnam Killed In CaptivityOn the afternoon of December 29, 1964, Bennett, Crafts and their ARVN unit made contact with Viet Cong guerrillas and the unit engaged in a firefight. During the firefight, both were taken prisoner.
By early 1965, Crafts and Bennett joined other prisoners held by the Viet Cong.
Those who returned supplied information on the fates of those who did not. In late spring, 1965, Bennett began to refuse food. This was not an uncommon occurrence among prisoners suffering dysentery, malnutrition, malaise, injury and other ills that were common among prisoners of war in the South. Normally, the other prisoners worked hard to prevent further illness by forcing food on the POW who refused food, provided the sick man was not isolated. Returned POWs report the death of several men from the cycle of illness-refusal to eat-depression-starvation.
Bennett apparently did not die of starvaton, however. The Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF) announced on Radio Hanoi on June 24, 1965 that Bennett had been shot in retaliation for Viet Cong terrorist Tran Van Dong’s execution by South Vietnam. He was the first POW to be executed in retaliation.
:dunno:DEC. 22, 1961
JAMES dAVIS BECAME THE FIRST U.S. SOLDIER KILLED IN VIETNAM WHEN HE AND THREE VIETNAMESE REGULARS WERE AMBUSHED WEST OF SAIGON.
THE NEWS PUT ALL OTHER U.S. ADVISORS ON THEIR TOES AS THEY PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS AT THEIR LONELY OUTPOST BASES…………HERE’S ANOTHER……
FIRST ONE-PIECE WINDSHIELD APPEARS………ON A CADILLAC.
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