From Baghdad With Love

This summer i have recently read the book From Baghdad, With Love by Lieutenant Colonel Jay, Kopelman with Melinda Roth. It is a story about a dog named Lava and how Lt. Col. Jay tried to bring him back to the states. It all started when Marines in Fallujah, Iraq, entered an abandoned house and when they hear a suspicious noise, the team arm themselves and enter the room from where the noise came. What they were expecting was some insurgents, but what they got was a little puppy. Against the Marine policy, the team decides to take the puppy back to camp and care for it. But time is wasting away and the team is going back to the states. They desperately try to bring the puppy with them, but its not easy. Imagine trying bringing a puppy from Baghdad to the U.S.A. that you're not allowed to have on a military plane. Luckily for the team a journalist by the name of Anne Garrels who was traveling with them helps hide Lava while the Marines travel home. This is where the start of Lava's real journey begins.