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connect with us! PRST STD US POSTAGE April 2019 PAID BOISE, ID PERMIT 411 1201 3rd St Corpus Christi, TX 78404 www.herrmanandherrman.com • 844.567.6399 1201 3rd St, Corpus Christi, TX 78404 • 4121 N 23rd St, McAllen, TX 78504 Inside This ISSUE 855 E. Harrison st, brownsville, tx 78520 • 8122 Datapoint Dr. Suite 816 San antonio, TX 78229 Are You Ready for Fiesta de la Flor? Page 1 Can You Trust Alexa? Hear What People Are Saying About Us Page 2 It’s Fiesta de la Flor! Buying the Best Car Seat for Your Child Opening Day Hamburgers Fiesta de la Flor happens this month, and we’re excited! For example, when a person is wearing a helmet, a collision can Page 3 This event is a celebration of Selena Quintanilla shake the brain. This can cause serious damage, even if Never Judge a Dog by Her Size and her music. For two days — April 12 and 13 — the skull isn’t broken and there are no other apparent Page 4 people from all over Texas, Mexico, and, really, injuries. We fght hard for folks who may struggle the world, will be celebrating in Corpus to get the care and compensation they need Christi. following this type of accident. At this year’s Fiesta de la Flor, we are once Other topics included explaining brain injuries again sponsoring El Mercado! This will to juries, trucking accidents, how laws apply Yorkie Doodle Dandy be our ffth year sponsoring the event. El across state lines, and motorcycle safety (and Mercado features dozens of artists and Motorcycle Safety Month is coming up in May, artisans from Mexico and Central America so you can expect more on that next month). Smoky the World War II Canine Hero — some even come from South America — as well as artisans from around Texas and the U.S. Altogether, it was a great event. I enjoyed talking with Considering the stress of combat, Smoky’s most famous act of heroism occurred when she went where no other lawyers who deal with similar cases we tackle at it’s no wonder military dogs tend man could go at an air base at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon. The engineers needed El Mercado is a shopping experience like none other. You’ll Herrman & Herrman. to be tough breeds known for help, so Wynne tied a strand of telephone wire to her collar and Smoky fnd art, clothes, crafts, food, and much more. The market is always their size and strength. German ran through a 70-foot-long pipe in a matter of minutes. Without Smoky, it flled with unique items. Hopefully we’ll see you there! We’re also ramping up our scholarship program once again. It shepherds, boxers, and various would have taken three days to lay the wire. Her work kept over 250 ground was a huge success this past year. If you or someone you know bully breeds are well-acquainted crewmen and 40 fghter and reconnaissance planes out of danger from At the ofce, we’re celebrating our one-year anniversary with Law is getting ready to go to college, be sure to check it out. You can with the battlefeld. But in World enemy bombings. Tigers! If you’re not familiar with Law Tigers, they’re a large network fnd more information on our Facebook page at Facebook.com/ War II, the most famous military dog of attorneys around the country who specialize in motorcycle HerrmanAndHerrmanPLLC. weighed only 4 pounds and stood a In addition to saving lives on the battlefeld, Smoky is also considered to be accidents. It’s been great being a part of their wonderful community. mere 7 inches tall. Smoky the Yorkshire the frst recorded therapy dog. She learned a number of tricks to cheer up Much like last year, participants write and submit essays. We’re Terrier wasn’t exactly what most people troops and would visit injured soldiers at the hospital in New Guinea. After In fact, we recently attended the frst annual Law Tigers Summit. It offering a scholarship for the top three essays. We’re looking associated with Shakespeare’s “let slip the dogs of war,” but her small size World War II, Smoky and Wynne visited veteran hospitals across the United was a meet-and-greet event, and we had the chance to mingle with forward to seeing everyone’s submissions! is part of what made her such a hero. States. other Law Tigers lawyers. Many of those who were in attendance also gave 20–30-minute presentations, ourselves included. And as we wrap up this month, I did want to mention something I In 1944, after being discovered beside a foxhole in the jungles of New “Corporal” Smoky lived for another 10 years after the war before dying on realized I hadn’t previously said: I’m a grandpa! My daughter had a Guinea, Smoky met Corporal William A. Wynne, an American soldier from Feb. 21, 1957, at approximately 14 years old. Wynne would go on to write One major topic of discussion was traumatic brain injuries as baby last year — little Sophia. Cleveland, Ohio. The two quickly became inseparable, and she stayed by a memoir about his time with Smoky titled “Yorkie Doodle Dandy.” Almost a result of motorcycle accidents. This type of injury isn’t fully Wynne’s side the entire time he was stationed in the South Pacifc. Smoky 50 years after her death, a life-sized bronze statue of Smoky was erected understood and, as a result, someone involved in an accident might is credited with going on 12 combat missions, surviving 150 air raids, at her fnal resting place in Lakewood, Ohio. Her statue is dedicated to the not get the full care they really need. –Gregory Herrman parachuting 30 feet, and earning eight battle stars. Smoky’s sensitive bravery of all war dogs, and it is a reminder that heroes come in all shapes hearing allowed her to alert Wynne and other soldiers of incoming air raids. and sizes. 4 844.567.6399 www.herrmanandherrman.com 1.