Is it insensitive to Vets to put up a poster that [View all]

[KurtNYC]

highlights the service of dogs in the military?

I live on a main street in a small town and there will be a parade Monday. My door, where the poster will go up, fronts the street and is seen by hundreds of people daily. Dogs get treated like crap in this town -- the area offered for a dog park here was a superfund site. I am not exaggerating -- they literally offered up a toxic waste dump that would require $950,000 in clean up minimum. They are allowed to stop dog owners and force you to show that you are carrying a plastic bag for pick up. If you don't have a plastic bag (no substitutes qualify) there is $250 fine, 2nd offense is $500 and third $1000. And the local paper writes hysterical editorials about how dog poop carries diseases and will pile up and kill us all, etc.

I just want to remind this city that dogs would do and have done anything for us and like all veterans, they deserve much better than what they come back to. The poster is a series of photos:

- Sniffer dogs and their handlers searching for survivors and corpses in the smoldering ruins of the WTC 11 years ago.
- IED detection dogs working in Afghanistan
- Dogs laying on the chests of front line soldiers in Iraq, with both dogs and soldiers smiling
- Paratrooper jumping with the dog across his chest
- Belgian malinoise raiding the bin Laden compound
- the black lab who laid in front of the Navy Seal's casket in January
- the black granite memorial listing all the dogs lost in the battle of Pacific WWII

There is also text: All Gave Some, Some Gave All" and "Thank you for your service"

Any thoughts, guidance or reaction before I put this up?