%0 Journal Article %T Mobility redux: Post-World War II prosthetics and functional aids for veterans, 1945 to 2010 %A James McAleer %A MA %J Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development %D 2011 %I Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs %X 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. %K WWII %K prosthetics %K veterans %K Dept of veternas affairs %U http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/11/482/pdf/doaj/mcaleergsted.pdf