
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 27, 1991                   TAG: 9103270411
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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HANDICAPPED CAN INCLUDE THE YOUNGER

IF RONALD Windel (letter, March 14) was bothered about the man he saw at the mall, why not get his license number and report him? Seems more constructive than criticizing innocent people.

Another thing: Why hit on older people, why not me? I am only 26, and on a good day you would not know I am handicapped. But I spent the first four years of my life in and out of hospitals, going through 17 operations so that I could walk. On a cold or rainy day, the pain of trying to walk the extra 40 or 50 feet can be quite unbearable.

My nana once told me: Never judge an Indian until you walk a mile in his moccasins. We are all lucky to wake up every morning, and most people are basically good and honest - the old, the young and even the doctors to whom I consider I owe my life.

ADELE MADDEN\ ROANOKE

by CNB