NEW BRUNSWICK - Two years ago, student and veteran Nadia Elieff was struggling to find ways to alleviate her PTSD, until she attended a panel on service dogs and discovered she qualified for such help.

After just three months with her golden lab mix service dog Truffle by her side, she can’t imagine her recovery without him.

“He provides me with so much support that I was missing before. He is the final puzzle piece to my recovery,” said Elieff, 23, who served five years in the Army Reserves and is now in the last year of pursuing her master’s in labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers-New Brunswick.

With Veterans Day (Nov. 11) approaching next week, this is a time to think about those who are living with disabilities — people like Elieff, who is recovering from PTSD after she

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