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How Dogs Are Lending A Paw To Uganda’s Traumatized War Veterans

These days, Charles Watmon shares his bed — a few sheets of thin, white foam on the concrete floor of his thatched-roof hut — with his dog.

It’s not much. But to Watmon, 44, and his caramel-colored mutt, it’s more than enough for a good night’s sleep — and a welcome change from his past.

During the course of nearly a decade, Watmon fought on both sides of Uganda’s brutal civil wars — first with the rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), then with the government.

The war ended more than a decade ago, after the ruthless rebel leader Joseph Kony and his dwindling militia were chased deep into central Africa.

Yet the scars remain.

Watmon says he saw and did things during that decade at war that he will never forget. He had flashbacks. He panicked at loud noises, lashed out at others and contemplated suicide.

He also discovered he was HIV-positive in 2009, near the end of his time with the Ugandan military. His wife and two children subsequently died from AIDS.

Then he got a dog named Ogen Rwot.

“She is like my sister,” Watmon says.

Ogen Rwot, whose name means “Trust in the Lord” in Acholi, is a therapy dog.

Photo: Julian Hattem for NPR