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Service Dogs: Freedom from PTSD Veterans live in constant fear. When is the next episode? Will it be worse? Is the memory going to be severe enough to completely take them out of reality? If it is, will they come back? Will they ever be normal again? These are questions American Veterans, past and present, are asking themselves. According to a Rand Study, 14% of 1.6 million soldiers returning from Iraq may suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. Soldiers encounter roadside improvised explosive devices, better known as IEDs, hidden in deflated soccer balls and dead animals (Drury 169). They encounter these devices and see things