Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1950 — Page 23

FRIDAY, APR. 7, 1950

It Happened To a ‘Don’t Baby

Our Amputees’

* ‘Treat Them As Whole Beings,’ Says Foundation Director

By Earl Wilson . NEW YORK, Apr. 7-"You should not give an amputee any more sympathy than a child who has ftubbed its toe,” said Don Kerr, amputee. . “As for relatives telling a disabled veteran, ‘IT. will alway wait on you hand and foot'—that's a terrible attitude.” At first this seemed ‘a little’ brutal, then Don Kerr, an amputee since he was 9, and now at 37 one of the coun-

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“My My parents’ he lost a leg in a train accident—"“would not let me be a cripple. “I boxed with my father ‘and after he knocked me down 30 or 40 times ‘and I got up all right, I found I could be an athlete, Kerr, who played in the Eastern badminton championships at Rockefeller Center Gym, said, “Have you seen one of these new legs? “It's airplane metal” he said, pulling up his pants leg. “Just got "wo |

liked to roller skate. He debated with himself whether he had the

Fst wsetum his: crippled. body.) er skate, ascend.and descend

“All he. could do was walk stairs, and-walk half a mile with- |

about 30 feet with canes. Other- lout canes. He returned happily] wise, the wheel chair. to his wife in Chicago.”

“Within five days after I started; work with him, he could dance, |

rot

PAGE 2 ~“Playing badminton in public,” their brothers 2a comatns theyre". Kerr said, “is good publicity re going to ‘aby them ny my idea. People go home and tell longer.” ;

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try's top badminton players, sent it it they don't get it.” explained that excessive sympathy | . 8. and babying have retarded re-| KERR hops around to vets’ habilitation of many war veteran hospitals—and . recently worked |with'a Sergeant Leight in Temple, “They need understanding, 3 Texas, argued. 3 "He had both legs off and was Over the years this columnist ready for discharge.” he said. had urged sympathy and special | “He ‘had a pretty wis. wha attention for the ° ‘broken wings” and “flat tires: ! “They should be treated as whole beings,” said Kerr, a direc-| tor of the National Amputee Foundation.” “They should find out what other amputees have ac-

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