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, in conjunction with Valley Life For All, continues a monthly series of profiles about people in our community who have different abilities.
I’d never deeply considered the lives of people with disabilities: They just are, as I just am. If someone with a wheelchair needed to get by, I’d just make way.
But really, that’s an oversimplification: My father-in-law is a paraplegic, having lost both legs while in the Air Force. I had a taste of being disabled when I had a double total knee replacement and used a wheelchair in airports and crowded places.
Staten Island obituaries for Dec. 17, 2020
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. The following is a roundup of obituaries published on SILive.com. Viewing times and guestbooks can be found here.
Theophilus David Fisher, 94, of Port Richmond, a World War II and Korean War Veteran who also worked for more than 20 years at the U.S. Postal Service, died Dec. 12, 2020.
Jeanne M. Leone, 93, a Staten Island native who was the previous business owner of retail store Slackarama, and was an instrumental part of the SI Pee Wee Football league, died Dec. 12, 2020.
Joseph René Yost , 85, who grew up in New Dorp, worked as a civil engineer for Grumman Aircraft and then later at Johnson & Johnson, and eventually taught engineering, died just before his 86th birthday.
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South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk won global fame with his bold portrayal of extreme violence John MACDOUGALL Text size
Prize-winning South Korean film director Kim Ki-duk won global fame with his bold portrayal of extreme violence and human brutality in allegory-rich movies, but was also accused of abusing his actresses.
The controversy around the eccentric filmmaker who died of Covid-19 in Latvia on Friday at the age of 59 raises questions on how to view the cinematic assaults on women that are a hallmark of his films, and the line between fiction and reality.
Kim grew up in a poor family with a violent, Korean War-veteran father, left school at the age of 14 and worked odd factory jobs for years, leaving him with what he described as a deep sense of inferiority .
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Editor’s note: The Post Independent, in conjunction with Valley Life For All, continues a monthly series of profiles about people in our community who have different abilities.
I’d never deeply considered the lives of people with disabilities: They just are, as I just am. If someone with a wheelchair needed to get by, I’d just make way.
But really, that’s an oversimplification: My father-in-law is a paraplegic, having lost both legs while in the Air Force. I had a taste of being disabled when I had a double total knee replacement and used a wheelchair in airports and crowded places.