First women, then blacks and dogs?!

Throughout the history of the world or at least mainly in the U.S at the time, was a time when women were deemed unfit to do a man's job and only purpose was to stay indoors and have children. This changed and now woman can work alongside men, have the same rights as men, and be free to do what they want under the law of course. Then, the blacks and other races who had been suffering in America for years upon years because of segregation had gotten their chance to be citizens. It began with Abraham Lincoln's fight in the civil war and Roosevelt eventually let the black men participate in the war and take the road left by Lincoln. The blacks now have the rights of a white man, can have jobs with white men, and are citizens of the United States. Now all these people have received their rights that some have waited too long for. It's still not perfect because of groups that still exist today such as the KKK but, we've been doing a decent job at it. These black men, and women have gotten their chance to fight for their country and help make the U.S a safer place for us all. Now, even the dogs got a chance to shine. Ever since the civil war, dogs have been used in battle to help support soldiers such as Sallie a Stafford shire Bull Terrier who started out in the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry at 4 weeks. She followed the men on their marches and was separated from them at Gettysburg. Even though she was lost, she still helped defend the dead and wounded by calling others to help the wounded by her. She continued her faithful service until 1865 where she was struck by a bullet in the head in the battle of Hatcher's run, Virginia(Who freaking shoots a dog in the head if I was a soldier, and the dog was an enemy I couldn't shoot it no matter what.) She was buried on the field of battle and is memorialized at the 11th Pennsylvania Monument at Gettysburg. Dogs in World War 1 and the civil war were trained as medical dogs or casualty dogs. They ran off to search for the dead and wounded to call their masters over to help the wounded or bury the dead. 15,000 years ago the first domesticated dog species was the Eurasian Gray Wolves and have become best known as man's best friend some dogs more than actual people. In fact, dogs were much earlier on then even the revolutionary war and Americans. They  They were used by the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Persians, Samaritans, Bagandas, Alans, Slavs, and Britons. The earliest use of war dogs in a battle recorded in classical sources was by Alyattes of Lydia against the Cimmerians around 600 BC. The Lydian dogs killed some invaders and routed others. Another important dog was a dog named Rags in World War 1. Rags had saved soldiers despite being bombed partially blind and gassed. The Soviet Union had strapped explosives to dogs to blow up German tanks. It didn't work out very. During World War 2, the Doberman Pinscher became the official dog of the USMC(United States Marine Corps.) All breeds of dogs could be trained to be war dogs. The 549 dogs that returned from the war, only 4 couldn't be returned to civilian life. One dog that stood out in World War 2 was a dog named Chips who was donated to the Marines from the Wren family. Chips was a German Sheperd-Collie-Siberian Husky who served in eight campaigns. He served with the 3rd infantry division in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany and his handler was Pvt. John P. Rowell. Chips served as a sentry dog in the Roosevelt-Churchill conference in 1943 and later that year in the invasion of Sicily, chips and his handler were pinned by an Italian machine gun team. Chips broke free from his handler and jumped into the pillbox and caused the four crewmen to leave the pillbox and surrender. Later in that same day, Chips helped capture ten Italian priosoners. Chips was the most decorated war dog from World War 2 with the distinguished service cross, Silver star and, purple heart. Sadly they were all revoked because of a policy preventing animals from being commended. His unit had unofficially awarded him a theater ribbon with an arrowhead and a battle star for each of his campaigns. Chips was discharged in 1945 and returned to his original owners. Who would've thought that man's best friend could fight in all of these wars and still be used to this day. They're used to attack, search for bombs, and serve in war. Dogs are truly amazing even if they don't go to the bathroom where they're supposed to or just bark way too much and are just lazy like my dog but we still love em. 



 
 

   (MY DOG)



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_in_warfare#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chips_(dog)

https://armyhistory.org/the-dogs-of-war-the-u-s-armys-use-of-canines-in-wwii/

https://www.alexandriava.gov/historic/fortward/default.aspx?id=40198

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/28604874