Kevin Ferris is coauthor, with Dava Guerin, of Unbreakable Bonds: The Mighty Moms and Wounded Warriors of Walter Reed and Vets and Pets: Wounded Warriors and the Animals that Help Them Heal. He spent 31 years as an editor and columnist with The Philadelphia Inquirer and his freelance work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, The Weekly Standard and the Christian Science Monitor. He lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania.