Family Adopts Bomb-Sniffing Dog that Accompanied Their Marine Son
The Los Angeles Times reports that “in a brief but poignant ceremony Saturday, a bomb-sniffing dog was declared retired and officially adopted by the family of his Marine handler who was killed in Afghanistan.”
“Dino, 6, a Belgian malinois, was adopted by the family of Staff Sgt. Christopher Diaz, who was 27 when he was killed in September 2011 while deployed in Helmand province.”
“Dino was with Diaz during the deployment but was uninjured.”
“‘I don’t think that it will decrease any of the pain we feel,’ Diaz’s father, Salvador Diaz, a former Marine, said of the adoption. ‘He’s not going to replace Christopher but he’ll give us something that Christopher loved, the Marine Corps.'”