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  • New center for paralyzed veterans opens (MN)

    04/18/2008 3:21:41 PM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 50+ views
    KARE11.com ^ | 4/18/08 | Trisha Volpe
    The U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs was in St. Paul Friday to open a vocational rehabilitation center for the Paralyzed Veterans of America. Dr. James Peake says veterans coming home from combat with spinal cord injuries need more than just top medical care. He says they also need vocational training to help them get back into society. Jesse Gonzales will be the first veterans to go through the center in St. Paul. In 1976, at 17 years old, Jesse became a United States marine. He wanted to see the world. "Okinawa, Japan and from there I went to Korea and...