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World flight
Pacific Coast Wings was a world flight to draw world attention. This media event was designed to show that the sky is the limitthat you can accomplish anything you strive for, if you put your mind to it, and that you should always go after your dreams.
Scott Cook, of Bandon, Oregon, is in the fight of his life, a fight that should not be. Although Scott is missing part of his left arm, it has not stopped him from any and every challenge in his way, including running his own timber company, cutting timber, operating cats, loaders, and other heavy equipment, sailing the wild Pacific as a commercial fisherman, and obtaining his commercial pilots license. He has now taken on the State of Oregon for violation of his civil rights. For the past 18 years he has been issued his CDL (commercial drivers license), both by the states of Oregon and Alaska, and has driven his log truck on both dangerous, narrow logging roads, and the highways and freeways of the west coast. He has never had an accident, injury, or caused property damage as a result of driving his log truck without a left arm. He maintains this clearly shows a very high level of safety and awareness, as well as excellent driving skills, ability and judgment. Now the State of Oregon has taken a strong, confident, and extremely talented man, and tried to destroy him, financially as well as emotionally. The state now contends that if he does not get a prosthetic arm, he will not even be able to demonstrate his ability to drive. Never has Scott felt more despair than when an official, who most likely could never do most of the things hes done, decided Scott is less of a man, because hes different. No longer are you able to prove your worth by doing a job, and doing it well.
The Federal Government has taken steps to insure every citizens rights to show demonstrated ability, through the Americans with Disabilities Act and the U.S. Rehabilitation Act. But an alarming thing is happening. States are challenging the ADA and Rehab act citing title I and title II issues, interpreting them for their own benefit. We need to unite agency groups, not only in the U.S., but also around the world.
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