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Selected appearances and public work.
Kenny Bass and Atlas’s story has been documented through national television, public media, documentaries, regional reporting, and public conversations about combat, service dogs, invisible disability, and purpose after war.
Featured documentary excerpt
Searching for Home: Kenny Bass
Kenny and Atlas were featured in Searching for Home: Coming Back From War, a 2015 documentary about the lasting effects of war and the search for healing after combat.
PBS SoCal hosts a 6-minute, 4-second excerpt in which Kenny discusses Iraq and what led him to create The Battle Buddy Foundation.
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Documentary work
Searching for Home: Coming Back From War
2015
Kenny and Atlas were featured in the documentary Searching for Home: Coming Back From War.
Featured documentary participant appearing as himself; Atlas and The Battle Buddy Foundation are integral to Kenny’s section.
A Stanford campus preview and question-and-answer session was held June 20, 2015 at Cubberley Auditorium.
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From War to Wisdom
Kenny appeared in From War to Wisdom, a documentary following Marines seeking purpose after war.
Featured participant appearing as himself.
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Selected television appearances
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Variety Salute to Service
November 10, 2022
Kenny was featured in Variety Salute to Service, a HISTORY and Variety television special hosted by Seth Meyers.
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CBS Los Angeles / KCAL9 — Veterans’ Voices
July 12, 2022
The Battle Buddy Foundation was featured in CBS Los Angeles/KCAL9’s Veterans’ Voices.
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The T.D. Jakes Show
February 21, 2017
Kenny and Atlas appeared on The T.D. Jakes Show in a nationally televised segment.
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New Mexico PBS — ¡COLORES!
November 2016
Kenny appeared with Searching for Home director Eric Christiansen on a special Veterans Day edition of New Mexico PBS’s ¡COLORES!.
2017 Hero Dog Awards media tour
A national-media tour connected to the televised Hero Dog Awards included TODAY on October 23, 2017; Fox & Friends and Fox Business’s Varney & Co. on October 24; and the Hallmark Hero Dog Awards broadcast on October 25.
The New York media tour was not a second awards ceremony.
Selected reporting and regional coverage
FOX19 / WXIX Cincinnati
Kenny and Atlas were featured in early FOX19 coverage about PTSD, service-dog tasks, and the creation of The Battle Buddy Foundation.
WHIO
WHIO reported on Atlas’s 2017 American Humane Service Dog of the Year recognition and Kenny’s role as Atlas’s handler.
Link pending; final official URL not yet recorded
Dayton Daily News / Journal-News
November 11, 2025
A regional profile connected Atlas, The Battle Buddy Foundation, Atlas & Friends, and Kenny’s current chapter.
Link pending; final article URL not yet recorded
Wiregrass / WDHN
May 30, 2022
Kenny delivered the keynote address at the Wiregrass Memorial Day ceremony in Dothan, Alabama, with surviving regional television coverage.
Link pending; coverage not yet recovered
Short biography for editors and producers
Kenny Bass is a Marine Corps combat veteran, co-founder of The Battle Buddy Foundation, speaker, author, and photographer. After surviving an IED blast during a counter-ambush patrol in Iraq in 2003, he returned home carrying physical and invisible wounds of war. Years later, his service dog Atlas helped him reenter public life and inspired a mission serving other veterans. Kenny’s current work includes If Not for the Blast, Atlas & Friends, and A Marine’s Disposable War.
This biography may be quoted or adapted for accurate editorial identification. Material changes, medical detail, and award descriptions should be confirmed before publication.
Current story and interview angles
- If Not for the Blast — an unconventional miniature memoir about compression, memory, combat, Atlas, and purpose.
- Atlas & Friends — children’s literacy, disability awareness, working-dog distinctions, empathy, and school outreach.
- A Marine’s Disposable War — disposable-camera photographs from Iraq reconsidered more than twenty years later.
- Service dogs and invisible disability — task-trained assistance, public access, independence, cognitive load, and respectful public understanding.
- Starting before certainty — building a nonprofit, books, art, and photography without beginning as an expert.
- Atlas’s legacy and Arlo’s distinct current role — a new chapter without presenting Arlo as Atlas’s replacement or as a service dog.
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