White Dog Guns

White Dog Guns, LTD.
We bought Kimmy in the small town of Zarghun Khalay, Helmund Province, Afghanistan for about the American equivalent of $10. Many of the men on the team had people in their lives named Kim. So naturally we named our critter Kimmy. She rode with us on all of our missions. On Feb. 8, 2009 at 10:32 a.m. we lost Lt. Jared Southworth, and SSG Jason Burkholder to an IED blast. Jason was Kimmy's favorite, and Jared wasn't far behind; both of these men were dear friends to me and Kimmy was now a token of a memory I had. My mother found an organization that works in lockstep with the ASPCA called "Tigger House" that worked to send animals out of Afghanistan to Quetta, Pakistan, from there flying to Frankfurt, Germany and on to NYC, USA. Her final leg of the journey was to Chicago, Illinois, where my family was waiting to pick her up and take her home. Today she and I both live a more peaceful existence in Arthur, Illinois running and gun and outdoor named for her.