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A Site Dedicated to Our four-legged and winged heroes that have served

A Site Dedicated to Our four-legged and winged heroes that have servedA Site Dedicated to Our four-legged and winged heroes that have servedA Site Dedicated to Our four-legged and winged heroes that have served

Photo: Recipients of the 2022 Animals in War and Peace Medal of Bravery and Distinguished Service Medals (see below )

WarAnimals@yahoo.com / (805) 603-2174

2023 AWP NOMINATIONS PERIOD IS NOW OPEN!

If there's an animal you think deserves our AWP Medal of Bravery or AWP Distinguished Service Medal, please nominate them before midnight PST, August 31, 2022. The Ceremony will be in March 2023.

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Nomination Period is now closed for 2023 Ceremony

Any nominations that are now sent in will be applied to the 2024 cohort of heroes.

2022 Animals in War & Peace Ceremony - March 9, 2022

(PHOTO ABOVE: 2022 Animals in War and Peace Medalists gather together in celebration. They are (l-to-r) Taylor Canfield and Nico (standing in for Cairo MOB #10); Jay Wynne and Anna Wynne for Smoky (DSM #2); Sean Hemphill and Ziggy (MOB #11); Petty Officer Cory Sumner and K9 Feco (DSM #3); Brian Throneburg for Nemo A534 (MOB #9); and Marshall Mirarchi and K9 Hurricane (DSM #1).)  


The 2nd Animals in War and Peace Medal Ceremony is now in the record books, and it was a resounding success!


 We honored  six incredible heroes - 3  for Medal of Bravery: Nemo (Vietnam War); Cairo (U.S. Navy Seal Team 6 - Osama Bin Laden raid); and MPC Ziggy (MARSOC);  and 3 for the new Distinguished Service Medal : K9 Hurricane (U.S. Secret Service); Smoky (WW2, 5th Army/Air Force); and K9 Feco (Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, MSST San Francisco).


Click here to read their stories!

Click here to see the full Ceremony!


The Nomination Process is now open for 2023 until August 31, 2022. Click here for the Nomination Forms, or email WarAnimals@yahoo.com for the application. 

AWP Nomination Form 2023 (pdf)Download

AWP Sponsorship Opportunities

To learn more about the Sponsorship Opportunities we have available for our next ceremony, please click on the file below. 

Thank you so much for your support!

2023 AWP Sponsorship Opportunities (pdf)Download

Medals, Monuments, MUSEUM and More!

Medal of Bravery

Read more about  the Medal of Bravery and what we are doing to move forward to make this a Congressionally mandated award.  (Click here)

Distinguished Service Medal

Read more about the brand new Distinguished Service Medal   (Click Here)

A new Museum honoring animals that have served in war

They had no voice ... they had no choice ... but now they will be honored and remembered for generations to come. (Click here)

Lucca K458 - War Dog Monument

A beautiful monument to one of America's heroic Military Working Dogs

 (Click here)

War Animals: The Unsung Heroes of World War II

The latest book from New York Times bestselling author, Robin Hutton, honoring the animals that served in World War II.  Many animals in the book received the British award, the PDSA Dickin Medal, also known as the "Victoria Cross for Animals." These stories also inspired the new Animals in War and Peace Medal of Bravery and Distinguished Service Medal, and the International War Animals Museum.  (Click here)

America's Greatest War Horse

Sgt Reckless

 LIFE Magazine’s “Celebrating Our Heroes,” lists alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, a small Mongolian mare who became the greatest war hero horse in American history.  Click here to learn more!

Sgt Reckless Website

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