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" My arm bones looked like chicken bones. "

Tammy Duckworth

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" The power of the ADA is that it ended up changing my life long before I ever imagined it would. "

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" We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us. "

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" Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined. "

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" I had been pursuing a Ph.D. in political science when my National Guard unit was sent to Iraq. Eight months into our deployment, in November 2004, a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents tore through the pilot's side of the Blackhawk helicopter I was flying. "

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" I love the Army with every bone in my body. "

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