Joseph Anthony Pepitone
(October 9, 1940 – March 13, 2023)
Pepitone was a professional baseball first baseman and
outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB)
for the New York Yankees, Houston Astros, Chicago
Cubs, and Atlanta Braves from 1962 to 1973 and for the
Yakult Atoms of Nippon Professional Baseball in 1973.
Pepitone was a three-time MLB All-Star and won three
Gold Glove Awards.
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm
On March 13, 1942, the Quartermaster Corps (QMC) of the United
States Army began training dogs for the newly established War
Dog Program, or “K-9 Corps.”
Well over a million dogs served on both sides during World War
I, carrying messages along the complex network of trenches and
providing some measure of psychological comfort to the soldiers.
The most famous dog to emerge from the war was Rin Tin Tin,
an abandoned puppy of German war dogs found in France in
1918 and taken to the United States, where he made his film
debut in the 1922 silent film The Man from Hell’s River. As the
first bona movie star, Rin Tin Tin made the little-known German
fide animal Shepherd breed famous across the country.
Rin Tin Tin
Three dogs are trained for guard duty at Camp Atterbury, Ind.
U.S. Army photo
