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Article: Providing outdoor joy to disabled and terminally-ill children

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Mark, a physically challenged child, enjoys a USSA funded hunt. (PHOTO COURTESY OF MIKE NORRIS)

Eric Badofsky of Skokie had sent me the e-mail a week ago. Like so many other e-mails, I glanced at it quickly and saved it in my inbox to read another day. We all have so much to do, and so it seems, very little time to do it. But time was of no importance to me after finally reading Eric's e-mail this week. You see, Eric's e-mail touched my heart like no other. In his e-mail Eric stated he's a volunteer director for a non-profit organization called United Special Sportsmen Alliance.

"United Special Sportsmen Alliance (USSA) was created to help fulfill the dreams of disabled and terminally-ill ...

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