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To: kingu

When I was in high school back in the 70’s, we had a student who had muscular dystrophy and was confined to a wheelchair. The school was two stories and had no elevators. How did he get to his upstairs classes? The school athletes (football players) carried him and his chair up and down the stairs. It was a thing of honor to help him.

Of course, students today couldn’t care about anyone but themselves.


34 posted on 01/13/2012 4:09:14 AM PST by fredhead (Vegetarian - Old Indian word for poor hunter.)
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To: fredhead

I was riding a bus in a college town awhile back, and the bus lost its hydraulic lift capability. SO, while the bus didn’t move, the man in the wheelchair sat in the cold while we all waited for a bus with proper hydraulics. I made a statement like “just hire drivers who can life/handle wheelchair bound people”.

Problem/resolution? Nope? I got chastised by a wimpy liberal who disagreed with my “basic philosophy”. I guess my suggestion, if carried out, would be unfair to those who cannot lift men in chairs.

Again, there was this problem.....but I guess that didn’t matter....


46 posted on 01/14/2012 12:20:58 AM PST by blackd77
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