>> paralyzed veterans of america began out of a desire of veterans who did not want to wait on society to build quality of life. these were paralyzed veteran, following world war ii, who didn't have the available technology and equipment, the ability to apply to society at that time, and then decided they would have to work for themselves and thus began a movement. we now today, we now recognize today as the paralyzed veterans of america and it is a movement to ensure a greater quality of life for veterans who suffer spinal cord injury and disease. >> and folks don't really think about it but there was not handicap accessibility and there was not the openness and there was a completely different view of paralyzed veterans at the time. >> let let's put it in context. a lot of people don't know that general george s. patten a world decorated war general, and survived world war one and two and died of a spinal cord injury. he survived 12 days. at that time, the life expectancy was two years for a paralyzed person. and of course, if you did survive that, you dealt with the social stigmas a

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