A Kind of Courage That’s Hard to Translate


	A Kind of Courage That’s Hard to Translate

mugofcoffee

9-1-2008 7:49 AM

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You need to read the whole article...such people are amazing really!!!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3cdb6bb7-eac2-4cc7-b4aa-8838aa38cbbe/383616A5-7F60-418D-AFC2-F4F4B4FE1C2D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/nyregion/01translator.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/nyregion/01translator.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/nyregion/01translator.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin"><DIV>By <A title="More Articles by Cara Buckley" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/cara_buckley/index.html?inline=nyt-per">CARA BUCKLEY</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/nyregion/01translator.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin"><P>The military translator from Queens sat beside his mother in a wheelchair in a hospital room on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Thursday. His right leg was encased in a black boot, affixed with Velcro straps from his swollen toes to his knee. What was left of his left leg, which had been amputated at the knee, was wrapped in a snug elastic rubber stocking on which the word “stump” had been scrawled. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/nyregion/01translator.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin">
<P>The man’s name is Syed Shah and he was grievously wounded in July in a bomb 
attack on a military convoy in <A 
title="More news and information about Afghanistan." 
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/afghanistan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">Afghanistan</A>, 
where he had been working as a translator for soldiers battling the <A 
title="More articles about the Taliban." 
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/t/taliban/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Taliban</A>. 
Mr. Shah is learning to walk with a prosthetic leg, though his progress is 
severely hindered because he cannot put any weight on his partly shattered right 
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