Skylark's Corner

If Cosmo can post on NRO Corner, jk's dog Skylark wants a spot at ThreeSources.

It seems there was a heroic German Shepherd in the gallery last night. Rex, a guest of the first lady:

How Rex landed such a coveted seat — actually a spot in the aisle labeled "Rex" on the official seating chart — is quite a tale.

His owner, Air Force Tech Sgt. Jamie Dana, awoke in a military hospital last summer badly injured by a bomb in Iraq and crying for her bomb-sniffing dog. Someone told her Rex was dead.

Later, Dana found out that wasn't true. But it would take an act of Congress before she could take him home to Pennsylvania.

The Air Force said it had spent $18,000 training Rex and that, by statute, he needed to finish the remaining five years of his useful life before he could be adopted. Dana's congressman, Rep. John Peterson (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., helped abolish that policy in an end-of-year defense bill, the White House said.

That's an earmark we can all support. Not smelly like those pig's ears...

Second Bush Administration Posted by jk at February 1, 2006 11:07 AM