A deployed US airwoman had her Christmas wish fulfilled thanks to a nonprofit that undertook a special holiday delivery—rescuing the stray cat who stole her heart.
US Air Force Technical Sergeant Tracy was stationed in the Middle East when she found a kitten on her base and named it Walter.
The orange tabby offered comfort to the woman so far from home, but as the end of her deployment neared, she couldn’t bear to leave him behind knowing he risked starvation or euthanasia.
So she turned to the veteran-led, New York-based Paws of War to help. They focus on entering countries where US soldiers are deployed and rescuing animals they may have formed bonds with.
The CBS News station in New York reported that it can cost as much as $10,000 to perform these extractions, as they require plane tickets, various medical procedures, and paperwork filings with governments at home and abroad.
But Walter was rescued in time for Christmas, when, after arriving first in New York, Paws of War volunteer and US Army veteran Dereck Cartwright drove the orange tabby to the waiting arms of Sgt. Tracey’s husband all the way in New Hampshire.
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“[It’s] the least we can do for these service members who are sacrificing so much, not only their safety—they are going to be away from their families this holiday, they are in a faraway place, a dangerous place,” said Robert Misseri from Paws of War.
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