Monuments and Memorials

Always Faithful

Among Ms. Bahary's commissions is our country's first national War Dog memorial Always Faithful, which was featured on CNN and unveiled at the Pentagon in 1994. Always Faithful is permanently installed at the U.S. Marine Corps War Dog Cemetery in Guam...Read more.

Faithful Partner

Faithful Partner is a life-size bronze likeness of a German Shepherd police dog in alert stance, standing atop a massive seven-pointed sheriff's star in black granite. The names of 23 fallen California K-9s are engraved on plaques set into the sculpture's base, including Rudy, who was stabbed at a traffic stop in Oxnard, California after a suspect threatened an officer.

Smoky

Flying more than 12 air-sea missions, Smoky prevented the removal of 40 planes from a safe location by pulling a telephone and teletype wire 70 feet through an 8-inch-wide drain pipe under an airplane taxiway. She also was the first "therapy" dog on record, visiting and performing for patients in hospitals for two years during World War II and for 10 years afterwards... Read more.