James Farrelly wrote: > We play kayak football here as I have mentioned. Recently the game took on a new importance. Apparently the VA uses kayak pool sessions to help some wounded vets get their motor skills sharpened up and help transition them back to a better place mentally. The local VA heard about our game and asked if some of the traumatic brain injury (TBI) vets could play too. Of course!!! > snip > One funny line from Tuesday's game. A long pass was thrown and right when a vet caught the ball another vet yelled very loudly, "Boom!" The guy dropped the ball, turned and laughed. The guy who yelled boom looked at me and said, "That's how you 'eff with a guy who's been blown up." I thought it was great he shared that with me. > > Jim et al God bless you for this. I am a disabled veteran, so this thank you really comes from the bottom of my heart. I haven't been able to paddle a canoe or kayak since before my first back surgery in 2003. Memorial Day weekend, 2003, a friend and I paddled down the Cache la Poudre River, with excellent Class III- conditions, http://www.dotzen.org/paddler/cpr/ratings.txt but that was almost literally the straw that broke this camels back. I'll never paddle whitewater again, but I do hope to get my kayak [Prijon Yukon Expedition] back in the water next summer. http://smokey.dotzen.org/folks/markz/photo/graphics/mzskww1b.jpg AND thank you PaddleWise members for all of the great trip reports. You keep writing, and I will keep reading!! I paddle vicariously through all of them, and the occasional view of Mark Sanders videos, THANKS MARK!! mark zen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jul 21 2008 - 06:54:16 PDT
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