Pyrs in History

Holiday Post:  Memorial Day

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Memorial day is for remembering people who died while serving in the country's armed forces and it's typically a day that "kicks off" the summer months.  Observed every year on the last Monday of May, according to Wiki the original holiday was called "Decoration Day" after the war in 1868 known as the American Civil War.

Did you know that Great Pyrenees had their historical place in war?

According to The United States War Dogs Association, Inc. dogs were used in World War I and World War II by the French as messengers, ambulance work, and to carry artillery (and contraband) through the mountains between France and Spain.  Chaz (2013) writes that the French had 250 dogs for use at the beginning of World War I which were trained in a special training facilities.