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SEAL’s Best Friend

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Even if you’re not one of those so-called “dog persons” — and I’m not — you’ve got to find this video affecting. It’s Hawkeye, the Labrador retriever of Jon Tumilson. He was a Navy SEAL and chief petty officer first class, one of 30 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan August 6 when a suspected rocket-propelled grenade down their CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Hawkeye paid his final respects to his human companion at Tumilson’s Iowa funeral August 19.