Photos: Dog helps veteran with PTSD
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SKOKIE, IL - APRIL 19: Army veteran Brad Schwarz, his service dog Panzer, and his girlfriend Erica Mason wait for the start of "The Movement," a documentary film about five disabled athletes who learned to ski despite their disabilities April 19, 2012 in Skokie, Illinois. Schwarz, who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), uses a service dog to help him cope with issues related to the disorder which he has dealt with since returning from a 2008 tour in Iraq. In addition to suffering from PTSD Schwarz has memory loss related to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and he must walk with a cane because of vertebrae and nerve damage in his back and legs. Ten days before he was scheduled to rotate home from a 15-month deployment in Iraq, his second, the Humvee in which he was riding was struck by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). Of the 5 soldiers riding in the vehicle, which caught fire after the explosion, Shwarz was the only one to survive. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
