Most of the time if an adult is asking me what happened they ask "were you wounded in the war?" Since there are so many veterans who have lost a limb due to a IED it's normally an assumption this is why. A couple of the amputee groups I belong to on FB people talk about people assuming they are a vet but they lost a limb due to a motorcycle accident or other types instead
I have more fun with kids asking me what happened. A lot of the time their parents are telling them don't stare and get embarrassed when their kids want to ask. I tell them it's okay that I don't mind and will try to answer the kid questions. I was at a ball game last year and this little girl asked me what happened. So I say I was injuried in the war. She looks at me innocently and goes "what's a war?" Had to stop and think about that one. So I told here a war is when people are fighting each other. She was like OK. So I told her I'd had a really bad owee and the doctors couldn't make it better so they had to remove my leg. She was happy with that answer. Parents that won't let their kids ask just baffle me. Kids are naturedly curious about stuff and IMO if you don't let kids ask questions it makes them less likely to accept someone who is different.
If you look at my socket it's pretty obvious that I was in the military. At least to me it does.
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I look at designing a wrap for the socket like choosing what tattoo to get next. When they make the socket if you want a design in it the prosthesis uses a piece of cloth that they inlay before the final layer of carbon fiber. I designed this wrap and then sent it off to a company that makes the wrap and then my prosthesis adds it to the socket. So you can have pretty much anything you want as long as it can be printed onto cloth.
I got my fist bike when I was about ten. It was one of those old mini bikes and I had to rebuild the 5 hp Tecumseh engine. Then when I was 14 I got my first dirt bike. I've had a few different bikes over the years.
This was my ex-wife's Harley. She let the thing get repo'd when she left. If I'd know she couldn't afford it I would have kept it. It was called a Softtail Convertable CVO ( CVO stands for Custom Vehicle Operations) and this bike was designed with easily removed saddle bags, rear seat pillion & windscreen.
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My first Harley was a Softtail Nighttrain. On my daughters 5th birthday I picked her up from Preschool on it.
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And this was my old Road Glide Ultra that I traded in for the one I have now.
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And who can tell me what TV show that mural was made famous from??
This is why I'm BROKE all the time. It's either a Jeep or Harley that takes all my money.