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Article: The last survivor.(PVA president's message)(Kenneth Seaquist)(Paralyzed Veterans of America)(Obituary)
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- Paraplegia News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Paralyzed Veterans of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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When World War II ended, some veterans found their homecoming presented almost as many challenges as their time in the military. These vets, who were paralyzed, returned to a country not prepared to deal with them or their needs. Their life expectancy was only a couple of years.
"Pearl Harbor was still smoking when a new breed of disabled veterans started collecting on the East and West coasts," wrote Harry A. Schweikert Jr. in his 1971 history of PVA. "In those early postwar days, paraplegic veterans were like lizards on a dissecting table, representing new experiments and challenges to the medical profession. The problem: Keep them alive. The question: How?"
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