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Navy officer Allen Parton suffered a severe head injury while on active duty in the Gulf War.
海军军官艾伦·帕顿在海湾战争中服役时脑部曾受重伤。
It left him confined to a wheelchair, unable to talk, and he lost half of his life's memories.
伤病将他困在轮椅上，无法说话，还失去了半数人生的记忆。
I can't remember my children's first steps, their first days at school, their being born.
我不记得孩子们的第一次学步，他们上学的第一天，他们的出生。
And I was there for all those occasions, but sadly those are memories robbed of me.
而这些我都曾亲身经历，但很悲哀，伤病夺走了我的这些回忆。
But more than this, Allen didn't even recognise his children.
不仅仅如此，艾伦甚至不认识自己的孩子。
He had no idea who the lady was that he had apparently married, and he lost the ability to feel any emotion.
他也不认识自己的妻子，还失去了感受一切情绪的能力。
I had two attempts at suicide in rehabilitation because I'd lost my past, I'd lost my future and really in a psychologically bad place, as well as physically.
康复过程中，我游走在自杀的边缘，因为我失去了过去，也失去了未来，身心都遭到重创。
But that all changed with a chance encounter with a dog named Endal, who was failing his training to be an assistance dog and needed a home.
但一场偶遇改变了一切，他认识了狗狗恩多，恩多没能通过训练，不能成为协助犬，还需要一个家。
At the time there was this one-year-old Labrador up there that had health problems and a huge attitude problem.
当时那边有只一岁大的拉布拉多健康有问题，态度也很不好。
And bless him. He saw something on the floor by my wheelchair, trotted across the training centre, picked it up and put it in my lap.
上帝保佑他，他看到我轮椅边的地上有东西，便一路小跑穿过训练中心，把它捡起来放在我膝盖间。
He didn't get a reaction; he didn't get a treat; he didn't acknowledged. And this really hacked him off.
它没能得到回应、奖励或者肯定。让他觉得十分沮丧。
This was the dog that didn't do anything for anyone and he'd done it for me and he wanted a treat, a reward, praise, anything, and he got the stone wall.
这只狗不会为任何人做任何事，却为我做了，还希望得到奖励、奖赏或者夸赞，什么都行，但却碰了一鼻子灰。
Then he trotted over to the mock-up supermarket, took a tin off the shelf, put it in my lap, didn't get a reaction.
之后他小跑去了模拟超市，从架子上拿了个罐头，放在我腿上，还是没反应。
To cut a long story short, I was disappearing under a mound of stuff and just before I completely disappeared, the brain switched on and I smiled for the first time in a long time.
简而言之，各种事情的重压下，我的自我意识正在消失，但就在我的意识完全消失前，大脑启动了。长久以来，我第一次笑了。
And it was the start of our relationship.
这就是我们关系的开始。
Endal became his 24-hour companion, aiding with every practical aspect of his life.
恩多全天候陪伴着他，在生活的方方面面给予他帮助。
He even helped Allen reconnect with his family and in 2002, Allen remarried his wife with Endal as his best man.
他甚至帮助艾伦和家庭重新建立了联系，2002年艾伦和妻子复婚，恩多是伴郎。
But this dog had to show his true devotion when, in the dead of night, Allen and Endal were both hit by a car.
在一个深夜，这只狗表现了他的忠诚。艾伦和恩多都遭遇了车祸。
But though I was knocked unconscious out of the wheelchair and Endal had been stunned by the vehicle as well, he got up, pulled me into the recovery position,
我摔出了轮椅，人事不知，恩多也被车撞得晕晕乎乎。他爬了起来，把我摆成恢复体位
he retrieved his blanket from under my wheelchair and covered me with it.
他从我轮椅下把毯子扯出来盖在我身上。
And in the dark he found my mobile phone which had jettisoned off in the impact, and he brought it to my face and then he made the brave decision to limp off to a nearby hotel and raise the alarm.
摸黑找到了我的手机，那手机当时被撞得飞了出去。他把手机放到我脸边后，做了个勇敢的决定。他一瘸一拐走到附近的旅馆，发出警报。
And for that he won the Victoria Cross for Animal Bravery.
他因这一英勇行为获得了维多利亚十字勋章。
That dog had saved my life, my marriage, and brought me back to my children.
那只狗拯救了我的人生、我的婚姻，将我带回孩子们身边。
