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Excerpt from: The High Road To Self-Support The new handicap usually throws the man into a state of extreme discouragement. The loss of a hand, an arm, or a leg seems to the man formerly able-bodied an insuperable obstacle to his future economic activity. The prospective pension is the only mitigating feature of this depressing outlook, and he begins to calculate how he can exist on the meager stipend which will become his due.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | The High Road To Self-Support | |
| Creator: | Douglas C. McMurtrie (author) | |
| Date: | June 1918 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | Carry On: Magazine on the Reconstruction of Disabled Soldiers and Sailors | |
| Source: | American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library | |
| Location: | vol.1, no.1, pp.4-9 | |
| Keywords: | Accommodations; Advocacy; American Red Cross; Amputees; Canada; Cripple; Douglas C. McMurtrie; Education; Educational Institutions; Employment; Field Hospital; France; Germany; Hospitals; Injuries; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Men; Military; Pension; Physical Disability; Rehabilitation; Schools; Self Help; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Soldiers; Veterans; Veterans & Military; Vocational Rehabilitation; War; Work; WWI | |
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