A legless soldier’s request: Look at me!
While Tom Ricks is away from his blog, he has selected a few of his favorite posts to re-run. We will be posting a few every day until he returns. This originally ran on September 26, 2011. “I would want people to treat us as they treat themselves. Not look down on us because we’re ...
While Tom Ricks is away from his blog, he has selected a few of his favorite posts to re-run. We will be posting a few every day until he returns. This originally ran on September 26, 2011.
While Tom Ricks is away from his blog, he has selected a few of his favorite posts to re-run. We will be posting a few every day until he returns. This originally ran on September 26, 2011.
“I would want people to treat us as they treat themselves. Not look down on us because we’re injured,” Artem Lazukin tells the Oregonian‘s Mike Francis. “When I’ve been around people, I’ve seen them look away. Like I’m not there.”
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