An inseparable pair: dog collapses and dies after army handler is killed

Tributes flow in to the British soldier who worked with his dog to defuse bombs in Afghanistan.




Colleagues said army dog handler Liam Tasker was inseparable from his spaniel, Theo, and so it was to the end. When Lance Corporal Tasker was shot dead in southern Afghanistan, his dog survived the shooting only to suffer a fatal heart attack when it returned to the British base at Camp Bastion.


I found this heart-breaking.


There was a picture of a young man - one of the Cairo protestors - after their success in Tahrir Square.  He looked totally overwhelmed.  The hope in his eyes was almost tangible.


There were 2 captured Gaddafi supporters in the back of a car. In the eyes of one of them was sheer fear. You could see it and feel it. He was petrified. (In the event he was saved and held prisoner by the leaders of the protest.


I know bit atrocities with great numbers of people are the headline-grabbing events.
But for me, it is the single, human, individual mements which really strike home and are the most telling and highly emotional.


All these momens and images have affected me deeply.


But not everyone - the tv  news channels report killings and injuries, torture and intimidation, death and destruction. And then (within a couple of seconds) they are smiling broadly and telling us about today's football matches.

Life goes on.