Marines build fence and restored hope for PTSD veteran

Marines help build fence for wounded warrior’s home
By AMANDA WILCOX
Daily News Staff
Published: Thursday, October 25, 2012

Johnny McCallon felt forgotten.

He served his country for 16 years and suffered a traumatic brain injury after an improvised explosive device blew him out of a second story window during a tour of duty in Iraq. He later developed post traumatic stress disorder in addition to back and leg injuries he sustained during the blast. As a result, he was medically discharged from the Marine Corps in 2007.

His PTSD consumed him and he slowly lost hope in humanity, finding solace only in his canine companions, of which he currently has eight packed into a small home in Hubert.

“With Johnny’s PTSD he identifies better with dogs then he does with people,” said Johnny’s fiancée Sandy Tonkens.

McCallon walks with a cane and his injuries make it hard to properly walk each of the dogs, so he lets them run around in their yard. But the yard isn’t fenced, and the dogs often run off the property into other people’s yards and even in the street.
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