MONTGOMERY COUNTY — September is Service Dog Awareness Month, and WMAR-2 News is taking a closer look at the incredible bond between veterans and their service animals. One veteran's four-legged partner not only helps her heal, but also saved her life.

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Molly O’Connell spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force. Her job was among the most challenging — she deployed multiple times and was often assigned to mortuary duty. Years of lifting the bodies of the fallen damaged her spine so severely that she had to learn to walk again while coping with the trauma of everything she had seen.

She admits there were moments she thought abo

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