Certainly truth is stranger than fiction.
One of my favorite movies, and one which I take to work to show my students, is based on the biography of Carl Brashear, the US Navy Diver who succeeded in continuing his legendary career even after an accident which crippled him. Brashear refused to end his career as a cripple and had his injured leg amputated. On the artificial leg he was able to resume rescue diving, which is one of the most physically demanding profession.
Now I just read about a young man whose parents had his terribly congenitally malformed legs amputated when he was just eleven months old. They accepted the same premise that Brashear did. Good prosthetic legs are better than useless skin and bone legs. Now Oscar Pistorius wants to run in the Olympics, the regular Olympics. He doesn't consider himself handicapped.
One of my favorite movies, and one which I take to work to show my students, is based on the biography of Carl Brashear, the US Navy Diver who succeeded in continuing his legendary career even after an accident which crippled him. Brashear refused to end his career as a cripple and had his injured leg amputated. On the artificial leg he was able to resume rescue diving, which is one of the most physically demanding profession.
Now I just read about a young man whose parents had his terribly congenitally malformed legs amputated when he was just eleven months old. They accepted the same premise that Brashear did. Good prosthetic legs are better than useless skin and bone legs. Now Oscar Pistorius wants to run in the Olympics, the regular Olympics. He doesn't consider himself handicapped.
Wow!
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