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Donald K. Allen
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Donald K. Allen, a Youngstown, Ohio, veterinarian and member of the board of directors of CAPS, disagrees. "Sure, dogs are different from people," he says. "But dogs are different from livestock, too, because they’re destined to live in someone’s home. It’s difficult to house-train a pup from a mill because it’s used to voiding wherever it wants. And it’s failed to bond with people."
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Donald K. Allen, who runs a veterinary clinic on 4501 Market St. in Youngstown, says he euthanises ill and elderly animals almost every day and usually administers twice the required dosage of anesthesia, to ensure that they are dead. When asked if the animal felt any pain, he speculated. "I think they taste it because almost always their tongues lick."
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Donald K. Allen became interested in World War II as a teenager in his hometown of Rockford, IL. It was “recent” history, and much of the world was still recovering from its effects. He read many battle accounts and histories through junior and high schools, eventually focusing more on the Pacific Theater. In 1967, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, serving as a military journalist in the Republic of the Philippines at Mactan AB and at George AFB, CA. In 1971 he attended Midwest Horseshoeing School in Macomb, IL, and headed back to school. Somewhere along the line, his WWII interest settled on the battle for Tarawa, and he read every account available. He often wondered what happened to Tarawa after the battle, and could find virtually nothing about how the atoll was used during the duration of the war. Thus began his quest to tell this story himself.
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In addition to the tours and other business ventures, Brown has done much of the research for a book soon to be published on the World Wide Web called The Aftermath by American Dr. Donald K. Allen. As part of the Tarawa tour, Brown hands out a paper by Allen about the battle that says, in part: “Of the 18,313 American Marines and sailors who participated in the assault on Tarawa, there were 3,110 casualties. One thousand and nine were killed in action or died of wounds. The Japanese Third Special Base Force comprised a total of 4,836 men. Seven Japanese and 129 Korean laborers survived as prisoners of war.
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To donate textbooks for distribution to veterinary students in Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, another contact is Dr. Donald K. Allen, 4501 Market St., Youngstown, OH 44512; donkenall@peoplepc.com. He sends the books through the countries' embassies. Especially needed are basic medical, surgical, and dermatology texts, and anything illustrative, such as ophthalmology texts and color atlases to supplement limited training in canine and feline medicine. Textbooks less than 10 years old would be of most use.
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