Just read on article in one of the newspapers that mentioned your association on statistics of police K-9 deaths related to them being shot. Didn't realize the numbers were so high!

Your group has an incredible website!

Christopher Johns
Technical Skills Coordinator
Springfield Police Academy

Thanks Jim,

The memorial looks great. Thank you for including John Paul, and for the links and story of K9 Argo, they were both one of a kind.

Brad Thompson
Ft. Worth Police K9 Unit
Instructor/Trainer
2500 N. Houston St.
Ft. Worth, TX. 76106

Jim--

Wow, the pictures look great on your site! I managed to take advantage of those fall colors. It is a privilege to have "Ready to Serve" represented on the Connecticut Police Work Dog Association website, along with so many other memorials. Thank you again very much!

Dear Mr. Cortina:

I wrote an article about military working dogs a couple of months ago for my website and swiped some of the good photos of war-dog memorials from your website for the "memorials" sidebar. In going over my files for the article as I made some revisions today, I find I did not get permission from you to use those photographs. I thought sure I had written to you and gotten such permission, but I think maybe that didn't happen.

So this letter is to ask you for permission to use the photos. Each one is credited to the CPWDA, and I have a link to your website, as well. If you don't want me to use the photos, I'll still leave the link on the memorial page so people can go to your site and see the pictures. You have some really good photos!

The memorial sidebar is at http://www.legend-and-lore.com… .

Thank you, and please accept my apologies if I goofed,
Yours,

Charles Wesley Orton
881 Majela Lane
Hemet, CA 92543

To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Haley Cohen and I am a junior undergraduate student at Yale University. I am the managing editor for a magazine on campus called The New Journal (you can check out our website at http://www.yale.edu/tnj ) and I am very interested in writing a piece on your K-9 training
program.

I was wondering if I would be allowed to spend a day observing the training process and talking to the trainers and officers.

If you could let me know as soon as you can whether this would at all be a possibility i would really appreciate it as i am working on a deadline.

Thanks so much!
Haley

Haley Cohen
Yale University 2011

Hello there,

This site brings me to tears, my compliments. A real tribute to the working dog.

I'm a doghandler my self and working and training dogs for security services in the netherlands. I wish we had somekind of memorial places like this in the netherlands.

Again, my compliments

Jim, you are a champion - no one else has done what you do for the K9 handlers and their dogs for as long as you have done it - - so let me tell you that while we are both alive and I can say that to you - I am sure people in your profession have told you that - but I am not in police work - and I see it from other areas that they may not - if I wrote a book on people I admire you would be in it and a very big chapter.

Barbara Snow
Executive Director
Humane Society of Pinellas
3040 State Road 590
Clearwater, Florida 33759

Hello CPWDA,

I recently came across your web site. It is a good looking, very informative website.

J Harrison
IT Manager
Xe Services/US Training Center

I knew Officer James Armstrong...or as I called him...Officer Jimmy. I was 10 years old when Jimmy was killed, and my mom was the police dispatcher on duty that day. When Jimmy left the dispatch center that morning, he had forgotten his hat and I took it out to him before he went on patrol. When the incident happened, my mom had another patrol unit come pick me up from school. He was like a big brother as were the rest of the Bensalem officers (my mom had gotten divorced 3 years prior). Thank you for this incredible web site. I have gone on to become and EMT in VA, and work very closely with our local police. Unfortunately, I have known several other officers who have gone down in the Line of Duty since Jimmy. I mourn his loss and proudly wear a blue bracelet with his name on it every day.

Thank you very much for all that you do.

Charles Lands