Sports therapy ( :cry:

[wakeme2008]

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http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/05/Worldandnation/Sports_therapy.shtml



Sports therapy

Not since Vietnam have so many soldiers returned home as amputees. A love for sports is pushing many of them farther than they thought they could go.

By BRADY DENNIS, Times Staff Writer
Published March 5, 2006

MIAMI BEACH - It's a cool Thursday morning, and the early risers are having coffee at the sidewalk cafes along Ocean Drive.

They are used to the everyday sights of South Beach: the vibrant art deco hotels, the slinky supermodels, the clusters of homeless people sleeping in the grass, the topless sunbathers.

But they are not used to this: 15 men, nearly all with a prosthetic leg or a prosthetic arm, riding bicycles along this strip of blacktop by the Atlantic Ocean.

..more tears at article......

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Yay for these guys!

A kick in the nuts for the bastard pricks that sent them to get this way.

Note: One of the toughest Karateka I have ever known was a Nam-generated double amputee(legs), one above the knee. Joe had more heart than anyone I ever saw. If they have half the heart Joe does, they will be fine. Funny story: Joe was sparring one day and fell. He kept fighting on the ground. One move he used, not taught in the school, was to grab the prosthetic he lost and start swinging it. We cheered and applauded. THAT'S tough! His upper body was so muscular that if you hit him, it hurt you. He could also fight effectively on one leg.

Damn, he was an inspirational sumbitch.

But, another kick in the nuts for the bastard pricks. This one just because and for the hell of it.

[The River]

2. This Is Beyond Sad

As a Veteran, my heart goes out to
every last one of them.
The dead do not suffer.
The wounded will know
nothing but suffering, hardship and loss for
the rest of their lives no matter how well they "adjust".

That this misadministration is cutting funding for
Veterans care is nothing short of criminal.

As a hard core cyclist I think it's great that
thay can ride at all. (I've got a leg/foot going "bad"
due to age and a hit and run accident last year)
They give me hope I can ride a few more decades!