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counselor there, and his staff gave me a completely different outlook. They were concerned and they cared.”
“They bend over backwards to help you any way they can,” Ruth Bowers added.
“And there’s a program for everybody, to fit all interests and abilities, no matter how disabled you are,” her husband continued. "Mr. Baker suggested I go to gunsmithing school. Guns have always been a hobby of mine but I never thought I’d make a living at it.”
For a year and a half, Bowers studied under Ben Toxford at Shenandoah Guns in Berryville.
“He's been doing it for years. He’s trained gunsmiths in wheelchairs, he’s trained gunsmiths who were paralyzed from the waist down, heart attack victims, just about every type of permanent injury you could possibly get. And you come away from Ben Toxford as a first class gunsmith.
“You have to pick up the pieces somehow so that you’re not feeling sorry for yourself—so that you can support your family again. Vocational rehabilitation did all that for me...The system does work. If you put as much effort into it as the vocational rehabilitation people do, it will work,” Bowers maintained.
Last month, Bowers took
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