GALLANT VIETNAM VETERAN ABANDONED TO HIS FATE BY CALLOUS U.S. AUTHORITIES
GALLANT VIETNAM VETERAN ABANDONED TO HIS FATE BY CALLOUS U.S. AUTHORITIES Yet another woeful case of neglect by the U.S. Authorities is highlighted by the plight of courageous Vietnam Vet, Richard Weinberg, who served in Vietnam as an elite Airborne Ranger, and was severely wounded, sustaining two severe head wounds. These resulted in paralysis to his left side and left him confined to a wheelchair. However, undaunted, he devoted himself to remedial methods; first gym and later yoga and Chi Kung, miraculously managing to free himself from the wheelchair and partially regained the use of his left arm. He took up yoga, studying first under the noteworthy university yoga teacher, Nicky Knoff who now runs the prestigious KNOFF Yoga ” School of Excellence ” in Queensland, Australia, then under an ex-SAS yoga therapist, Martin Jackson . Following this he became a private student of the doyen of yoga, B.K.S Iyengar, after which he took up teaching yoga...