“I’d lost hope in myself. I’d lost faith. Then all of a sudden this cat came over and it was like ‘Hey, you are you.'”
When Staff Sergeant Jesse Knotts saw a stray cat in the Maiwand District of Afghanistan who reminded him of his life back home in Oregon City, he felt like he needed to rescue him.
"He was showing some signs that people weren’t taking very good care of him,” Knotts said.
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He named the cat Koshka and made a home for him in his small office space.
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After two of his friends were killed in action, Knotts was devastated.
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As he cried in his office, Koshka hopped onto his lap to give him comfort.
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