WHAT DID IT ACCOMPLISH? - Clayton D Steep - December 1981

Clayton D Steep

The United Nations designated 1981 as the International Year of Disabled Persons. But how much nearer to solution are the problems of the world's 500 million disabled people? Not far from where I am writing, a man sits in a wheelchair on a busy downtown sidewalk. This morning, like so many other mornings, he painstakingly maneuvered himself to a position under a storefront awning. There he sits, slightly out of the path of harried pedestrians. His mind is absorbed in the confused jangle of city noise and the swirling fumes from passing buses and automobiles. He sits a spectator. Surrounded by society, watching the world go by. I wish he knew life offered more than that. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library