| Show Blind L. Kent Honored recently by Veterans as Veteran of The Month A former Duchesne man was honored last week by the Na-tonal Veterans Administration ns its of the He is Leland Kent a blind residing in Salt Lake and the son of and Mrs Harold Jack Wimmer of Duchesne and Nine who resides at R. with his Dolores L. and was blinded by an explosion on a Korean airstrip on July Mr Wimmer recalls being drafted into the in 1950 when the Korean War broke He was sent to with an engineer On this July he was driving a motor putting the finishing touches on an in man's between the two fighting Kent tells how the Canadians had been using rollers on the airstrip without creating but the wide blade of the grader touched off this one that left him totally although he didn't find out for several After his he was taken to Japan and realized he could not but thought an operation would alleviate the but found out this wasn't At Foil Sam Kent was told he would be permanently blind and was sent to the VA Center in a suburb of Rather than let himself become depressed and withdrawn as often is the case when the young are confronted with blindness Kent said he accepted his condition because of contact with a blind University of Utah Law School student and a blind attorney in Utah He spent a short time at and then returned home in After returning to Hines about Thanksgiving Kent received instruction in the use of a attended shop classes to develop finger dexterity and Braille writing classes and After a Christmas vacation at Kent returned to Hines and later met his wife in a nearby They were married in in Melrose and were honored at a wedding reception in the Duchesne Stake Recreation Hall in Kent enrolled at the University of Utah In and was graduated with a degree in Two years later he was graduated from the law then passed the Utah Bar Association More than a year Kent's hearing became and he returned to Hines for a refresher course and was fitted for transistor hearing He finished this course last year on Christmas Day and then returned to Salt Lake Kent says his most serious problem in his law practice is of the moment when a client calls him upi a problem He usually the information and calls client after an Interval of His office aids M a tape recorder and dicta Volunteer readers 1 to him from law I In he apparently not encounter and big lems and thanks all the ju for being so When Wimmer ca I The Uintah Basin Standard Goldie to bring this honor to there was more motherly pride in the the mother of this disabled i eran who refused to be defeat bv I L |
