Mobility redux: Post-World War II prosthetics and functional aids for veterans, 1945 to 2010
Journal: The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
Year: 2011

MARCHING ON THE U.S. CAPITOL: 1945 Protesting World War II (WWII) veterans marched on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, in mid-1945 after the war ended, many defiantly holding their prosthetic legs and arms in the air and shaking them as if wielding clubs and intimidating their enemies--members of the U.S. Congress. Their protests came from the Capitol's gallery, where the veterans gathered to voice their anger about their inferior artificial arms and legs, provided by the lowest-bidding contr