Pen Farnea And Nowzad's War: A Literary Analysis

When a soldier goes to war, they see death everywhere and are in a place where survival is the first priority. They miss their country and family while they are across the seas fighting a war. Pen Farthing was one of the soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. While on patrol, he and his troops encountered a dog fight and broke it up. One of the dogs followed him home. The dog was a stray who had been surviving on the streets. Pen Farthing decided to take him in and named him Nowzad the town that he had saved him from. For several months, Nowzad and Farthing filled the voids in each other's heart. Farthing gave Nowzad a home while Nowzad gave Farthing a way to destress and disconnect from the war that was going on outside. When he was going back

to The United States, he had a hard time trying to take back Nowzad back with him. Wanting to help Afghanistan and also not wanting other soldiers to encounter that problem when they try to take a dog with them he created Nowzad Dogs.
Today Nowzad Dogs has helped reunite a hundred soldiers with the stray dogs or cats, they rescued while serving on the front lines. Each dog goes to an animal shelter in Kabul, where they are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped so that they can go home to the soldiers waiting for them in the United States. They have helped a soldier named Edwin Caba reunite with his dog Cadence. "When I pulled Cadence out of the crate at (the airport), I was just so excited. I was even more excited that she remembered me," Caba said. "It kind of brought me back to coming back after a mission and having her there. It brought me right back to that feeling." Pen Farthing was named CNN 2014 Hero for what he does. Pen Farthing is a hero to all the Soldiers who have brought a dog or cat back from the war. He gave them a way to keep them connected to the country they served in and a way to give a home to their pet.