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Nancy Salandra
Free Our People March Co-Chair
Philadelphia
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| This has been incredible It don’t seem real almost, the journey is changing people’s minds- a different picture than they got from the Jerry Lewis Telethon the weekend before we left. Everyone is ready to go, they are excited. It is one thing to dream something; it is more to make the dream come true. Obviously you can be disabled and do these things – you don’t have to want to be non-disabled to do these kind of thing. |
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Tony Perrone
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Tony Perrone
Georgia
I am here to support MiCASSA and help other people stay out of a nursing home.
The message I want this march to send to Georgia is to get off your butts and let Congress know this needs to be passed. Some people look at what we are doing and say that we are marching because we have something to gain; but no one wants to be forced into a nursing home or institution.
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If my health keeps going downhill, I am sure they will suggest it for me. There is nothing in an institution that can’t be provided in my own home.
I know quite a few people back in Georgia that want out, especially young people. The youngest person that I helped get out of a nursing home was 15 years old. Steven Russell, now living at home with foster parents.
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