Description"Jimmy Hatch is a personal hero of mine." --Anderson Cooper "Irresistible.
He lives in Virginia..
He is a documentary filmmaker and writer.
He graduated from Harvard and Magdalen College, Oxford.
CHRISTIAN D\'ANDREA grew up in Minnesota.
He lives in Virginia.
He is the founder of Spike\'s K9 Fund as a way to pay back the debt he owes to working K9s.
About the Author JAMES Hatch is a retired member of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
Through the love of family, friends, and his military dogs, Hatch learned remarkable tools and found his purpose, and now he wants to share this wisdom with the rest of us because we all have wounds.
What emerges is a different kind of hero\'s journey, one in which Hatch shows the courage it takes to confess, confront, and overcome his own brokenness.
But getting well mentally would prove to be much tougher, as he fought through the depths of despair, alcoholism, and the pull to end his own life.
Getting well physically required eighteen surgeries, twelve months of recovery, and learning to walk again.
In Touching the Dragon, we witness his long road to recovery.
As a result of his horrific leg wound, his twenty-four-year military career came to an end--and with it the only life he\'d ever known.
The mission went south, and Hatch was left with a shattered femur from an AK-47 round and the SEAL dog who fought alongside him was dead.
On his fateful final mission in Afghanistan, his SEAL team was sent to recover Bowe Bergdahl--the soldier who deserted his post and fell into the hands of Al-Qaida and the Taliban.
Ford Huffman, Military Times James Hatch is a former special ops Navy SEAL senior chief, master naval parachutist, and expert military dog trainer and handler.
A wounded SEAL\'s shame becomes a salvation." --J. . . .
Description"Jimmy Hatch is a personal hero of mine." --Anderson Cooper "Irresistible
