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Not kovach. We were introduced i tom, local scribe here years ago and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms ofbackground and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and i just wanted to give you background before ron and istart speaking. Before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead end her, i know hope as they were called. Its the average lifespanwith 18 months for someone wounded in world war i. World war ii was the game changer. The advent of penicillin, they had surgical units right behind the battlefield, right behind the front line and they had better evacuation back to the mainland. So by the end of world war ii we do have a cohort of about 2500 us veterans who are paralyzed and returned home and they had a chance at a normal life and this was the first cohort that was going to have this and it presented a dilemma and a bit of an issu ....

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