text:  and with three people and within 12 years it's the nation's largest service dog provider to veterans with almost 800 graduates of the program so it was her pushing me to be to get back to myself i mean like so we all kind of get in a rut or we you know just live life and accept the things that are going on at that time i hadn't given up but i was pretty down and i guess i didn't realize it myself until i got back with the dogs and there was definitely a huge change