Comments on: Some thoughts… http://dread1mynproductions.com/rablog/2006/07/05/some-thoughts/ I am The Roving Activist. From Peace and Justice and Disability Rights, to the Environment and beyond, I want to share my experiences, and also, to learn about the various struggles and movements that are alive in this world! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:37:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Dread http://dread1mynproductions.com/rablog/2006/07/05/some-thoughts/#comment-15 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:13:54 +0000 http://dread1mynproductions.com/rablog/2006/07/05/some-thoughts/#comment-15 No, people with disabilities cannot just walk or roll in off the street and join. You are right in that if a recruit or an officer acquires a disability while in service they are SOMETIMES allowed to stay on in a desk job position. I do not think that NASA will ever allow a person with a disability into the astronaut program, but I cannot see why someone who has a disability would not be qualified for some other position within the agency. No, people with disabilities cannot just walk or roll in off the street and join. You are right in that if a recruit or an officer acquires a disability while in service they are SOMETIMES allowed to stay on in a desk job position.

I do not think that NASA will ever allow a person with a disability into the astronaut program, but I cannot see why someone who has a disability would not be qualified for some other position within the agency.

]]> by: Okapidread http://dread1mynproductions.com/rablog/2006/07/05/some-thoughts/#comment-14 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:22:53 +0000 http://dread1mynproductions.com/rablog/2006/07/05/some-thoughts/#comment-14 Hmmm, ya got me thinking about this. Apparently, the military DOES allow people with disabilities to be in the armed forces -or at least remain there AFTER they made them that way by sending them off to war, where they were blown up and/or maimed and made to be a person with a disability. I wonder, though...do they allow someone who has walked (or rolled) in off the street into a recruiters office to join up? Yes, we have certainly come a long way from only a few decades back when they did not allow women, nor blacks in the astronaut program. Wonder how far we still have yet to go until EVERYONE can be treated equally? Hmmm, ya got me thinking about this.
Apparently, the military DOES allow people with disabilities to be in the armed forces -or at least remain there AFTER they made them that way by sending them off to war, where they were blown up and/or maimed and made to be a person with a disability. I wonder, though…do they allow someone who has walked (or rolled) in off the street into a recruiters office to join up?

Yes, we have certainly come a long way from only a few decades back when they did not allow women, nor blacks in the astronaut program. Wonder how far we still have yet to go until EVERYONE can be treated equally?

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