Disabled Vet Commm Vs Boy Scout Comm

Brucec,

I am rated at 80% but have an appeal in for the last 4 years; I have the Disabled Veteran: US Armed Forces license plates that afford me parking in the reserved for disabled parking spaces; but don't always use it. On days that I do I look normal, and get lots of sideways glances from people, but each step I take is excruciatingly (sp?) painful. My feet have been destroyed by jungle rot and agent organge nerve damage; its like having open raw nerves from my ankels down (peripharil nueropathy) being able to save some steps is very nice; still I try to leave those spots open for those in worse shape than me; wheelchairs, etc.
It gauls me to no end to see a perfectly able person pull into those spaces without the proper tags, hanger; even more when someone pulls into one, reaches under the seat and brings out a "handicapped" card to hang on the rear view mirror and then able scampers about gathering groceries, when the come out the card goes back under the seat!
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THANK YOU to those that have served. Your courage and self sacrifice is truly appreciated.
Laimbeer4452

basicbob- I am handicap, right piriformis removed, and subsequent surgical scarring on right sciatica. If you saw me (6' 200) you wouldn't know it, I look "perfectly able". I also walk normally. Problem is if I walk for more than 2 minutes, I need to go get PT and I have to ultrasound myself for 10 minutes, plus I have to put that smelly pain relieving rub on all night. Not all of us parking in handicap appear as if we need to, but we do.

I ended up two merit badges short of Eagle Scout....because I was too afraid to speak in public.

here's my gasping comment, which may make me seem two cards short of a full deck:

There's a female on the Boy Scouts of America Commemorative.

I dont agree with that....here I sit, confounded; my wife nearly an ultra-feminist, too.

(more)words fail me.