Segways offering disabled vets more mobility

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Segways offering disabled vets more mobility
By Oren Dorell - USA Today
Posted : Wednesday Dec 5, 2007 7:10:08 EST

The last time Erick Castro went to an amusement park with his wife and 2-year-old son, he paid to get them in and left. Walking around for hours was simply too much for the former Army sergeant who lost a leg while in Iraq.

But recently, Castro, 27, received a Segway personal transporter and his life changed. He can get to his classes at Arizona State University with more ease and do a lot of the little things, like get the mail, that were once difficult.

Best of all, “now I can stay at the amusement park,” he said.

Castro is among 56 veterans who have received a Segway from Segs4Vets, a charitable group headed by a disabled businessman.

The group is in the process of giving away 42 of the stand-up electric scooters to disabled veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The last 17 of those will be awarded Wednesday at a ceremony in Arlington, Va.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/12/gns_vetsegway_071205/

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1. Thanks for that story, that is interesting and glad to see they can be

used in a good way and especially for our veterans who have and are having to endure so much for this chosen war of Bush's. Yes, bring them home soon.