My connection with Afghanistan stayed alive because of Nowzad, so for me, every time I look at him, it just makes me smile. I could never have dreamed that we'd be doing something like this in Afghanistan. Pen Farthing More Quotes by Pen Farthing More Quotes From Pen Farthing On every single street corner in Kabul you will find stray dogs, to be able to get that animal home to them, it closes the loop. ... They don't want to just abandon that animal. Pen Farthing top-news As the troop sergeant, I was there to motivate the guys and get them fired up again to go out and do the job. ... But no one was doing that for me, my time with this dog was a way of de-stressing, collecting my thoughts and popping my head back in the game. Pen Farthing top-news One day you are fighting the Taliban, and the next day you are home and grocery shopping, when I got home, I thought, 'What am I doing here?' I didn't want to leave Afghanistan forever. Pen Farthing top-news He was just war-torn and battered, just like the town we were actually fighting over. Pen Farthing top-news
