April 23, 2004
Art Imitating Life
Anyone been reading Doonesbury this week? Looks like B.D. has become a new citizen in the Kingdom of Gimp. I'm more than a little curious to see how the strip addresses his adjustment to a life with a disability. Will Boopsie freak and leave him? Will he get his coaching job back? Trudeau gets big props from me for not simply killing off a character. The thousands of wounded coming home from Iraq are, to be quite honest, a bigger story than the number of dead. The military has the medical technology to treat wounds that probably would have killed these soldiers ten or twenty years ago, but now they're coming home with a range of disabilities that will require treatment and other support services for years to come. I think it would be fascinating to do a longitudinal study that examines the quality of life of wounded soldiers now compared with a decade in the future. At a time when states are slashing budgets for disability services, what kind of homecoming will these soldiers face?
Posted by wintermute2_0 at April 23, 2004 11:28 PM
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