Past, Present, and Future

It is now 1979, and I will soon turn sixty-years-old. My husband continues to teach at Georgetown University, my daughter will soon follow in my footsteps and attend university, and I will continue on my path of defeating inequality for people with disabilities. I look back on my difficult past of leaving my home in Germany, dealing with discrimination in school for being Jewish, living with the American guilt of the atomic bomb, and working toward finding equality for children like my daughter, with fulfillment. I worked past the trauma of being Jewish and seeing the atomic bomb, and I am proud to have kept the promise I made myself when I was fifteen years old: I will dedicate my life to the service of others.