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That they agreed to speak with me tonight about the book. Back. Host we were introduced a media local writer, years ago and ron, is been very encouraging and have a quite a bit with this book in terms of background and research and so forth. And of course with a vietnam veteran, most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and i just want to give you a little background before we start speaking. Before world war ii, if you are paralyzed, you are. Much a dead no hope for as they were called. Because the average lifespan was 18 months for somebody would do in world war i. World war ii was a game changer. The advent of penicillin, and other drugs. They had surgical units right behind the battlefield. Behind the frontlines. And they had evacuation back to the mainland. And so by the end of world war ii, you had a cohort of about 2500 u. S. Veterans who return home and there are paralyzed they had a chance at a normal life span. And this was the first cohort was quite have t ....
Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, march 14, 2017, madam clerk please roll call. Commissioner breed commissioner cohen marry no presents commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim not present commissioner peskin commissioner ronen not present commissioner safai commissioner sheehy not present commissioner tang commissioner yee madam chair we have quorum. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you m any communications. I have none to report madam president and colleagues any changes to the approval of the january 24, 2017, and january 31, 2017, Board Meeting minutes. Seeing none, is it a motion to approve those minutes moved by commissioner tang and se ....