00:00My name is Juan Josue Colón Estrada.
00:02I work for the Department of Defense as the lead instructor trainer on mine detections using K9.
00:08Mr. Colón Juan, he had Zaslo and has the most deployments of any other mine dog handler that I've ever
00:14known, seen, or dealt with. He does.
00:18Me and Zaslo, we did it for 10 years.
00:23Juan and Zaslo are badasses. We're talking like top in the world.
00:31Part of the TSA's canine boot camp that trains these noses to sniff out explosives.
00:36But something about this puppy made him special.
00:40The atmosphere of our work here at Lackland, I think, changed a lot after 9-11.
00:47Considerable sense of the importance of what we were doing.
00:50That's the program from which the dog Zaslo emerged.
00:54Okay, Suzanne, this is Zaslo, and he was so happy to see me, and he would have been happy with
01:00anybody.
01:01And they passed her on a book about 9-11 victims, and I looked up the name Zaslo and learned
01:07it was about Ira Zaslo.
01:13From time to time, I would Google my dad's name.
01:16I came across this really wild, incredible post.
01:21And it turns out she was fostering a dog that was named after my father.
01:27I got an email back with this full write-up of this storied canine.
01:32They gave me the contact information for this soldier that he served with.
01:37And that's when I was able to put why my dog Zaslo was named Zaslo.
01:44My dog was named after a family to honor somebody who died in Allen-Evon to honor his family.
01:56My father's story is alive and well.
02:02It changed my life.
02:18I'm sorry what it did.
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