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(AP) — Tucked into the back room of Manchester Cafe is a lifesaving bond between comrades. On this Wednesday afternoon, it's a hat that displays his unit — the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment — and its insignia, a black horse. The East Manchester Township resident, 67, isn't shy about his post-traumatic stress disorder. The PTSD causes him severe depression, nightmares that send his arms swinging and a "thousand-yard stare" — the long, blank gaze of a tired soldier. [...] when the opportunity came in 2012, he helped train Hunter through the now-disbanded Helping Hounds program (now the pair goes to weekly meetings with Dog T.A.G.S.

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