Photos: Dog helps veteran with PTSD
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CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 14: Army veteran Brad Schwarz (L), with his service dog Panzer, chats with Marine Corps veteran James Dahan while they smoke cigarettes outside Wrigley Field during a Chicago Cubs game on June 14, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Dahan was injured while serving in Iraq in 2004. Schwarz uses Panzer to help him cope with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to his 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, Schwarz was the only one to survive. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
