In the dying days of 1944, men maimed and crippled by World War II were already being discharged from U.S. service hospitals and returned to civilian life; a war-loan poster bloomed in the land, showing a soldier with empty sleeve holding a little girl in his good arm.
Walking down Cleveland's busy Euclid Avenue, Salesman George Kruger saw the poster and was moved to anger, not pity. Says Kruger: "That well-meaning poster destroyed a lot of dignity. It was asking for sympathy—one thing an amputee gets and doesn't want." Kruger knew what he was talking about; at 13 he had lost his...
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