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Dogs have the ability to be adversely trained for militaristic operations, they even have some characteristics that make them more qualified for a job than a human. Some of the jobs military dogs are used for are bomb detection, defense, messenger carriers, scouting for snipers or enemies etc. thus showing the adversity and importance of dogs. Compared to humans, dogs understanding of war and the moralities which are attached to war are nonexistent, thus making tasks more easily accomplishable because of dog’s compliance. Even though there are a vast amount of accomplishments that dogs can easily complete verse humans, simple task that acquire things such as apposable thumbs can be slightly more important for a human to accomplish them. The capability to have almost total control over a being and having the ability to manipulated, this allows for courageous goal to be accomplished. One of the intended uses of dogs in warfare is to spare a loss of human life, a dog’s life is more expendable than a human. …show more content…

However, there seem to be two types of war animal monuments, ones with only animals or ones with an animal with their master. The two previous monuments I have mentioned are single standing animals, in contrast the next monument I will be focusing is the South Carolina War Dog Memorial. This work was created by Renee Bemis and was dedicated on Veteran’s day in 2015. As seen in figure 3, the sculpture is bronze, showing Tiger and Sargent Johnny Mayo who served in Vietnam in 1970.While in Vietnam Sargent Mayo, Tiger and the rest of Mayo’s troop where scouting the difficult jungle terrain and Tiger triggered a trip wire and was killed. Even though Tiger lost his life, he was about to save the lives of Mayo and the rest of his troops, Mayo has said he owes his life to his fallen comrade. This monument is larger than life,

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