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Photos shared online Tuesday night during a police operation in the area appear to show several wheelchairs among a mass of items in the back of a Department of Public Works trash compactor. Tax dollars at work. Crushing wheelchairs pic. It was really loud. Any unattended items were confiscated, she says, including at least three wheelchairs. He is not able to be mobile without it, and not having a home, nowhere to sit, nowhere to go, and was having pain. She pleaded with police and was sobbing and crying.

I answer all their questions. And I will answer all of his. Close exposure to people with differences and open conversations about our distinctions breed acceptance and tolerance, and eradicate fear. I knew this before, abstractly, and from my own daughters. Now I am learning it all over again. I think the understanding that we must accommodate disabilities, and have empathy for all the challenges people face, will be with him forever. Carol Steinberg is a writer and attorney in Boston.

He was Hoyt been dealing with health issues the past few years, according to CBS Boston. Hoyt pushed his son Rick, who was born a spastic quadriplegic with cerebral palsy, in marathons starting in and in the Boston Marathon in The duo participated in their final Boston Marathon together in , when Dick Hoyt retired from running. Bryan Lyons replaced Dick Hoyt in until his death in Menino, who was discharged from the Brigham right before the prayer service, gingerly lowered himself into his wheelchair and his son pushed him from the altar.

The mayor took his place next to his wife, Angela. Menino took off his glasses, wiped his eyes, and bowed his head, pressing his lips to his folded hands as he prayed.

In his remarks, Patrick made a point of recognizing Menino. Those assembled in the cathedral responded with a roar.



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