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Ray Werner: Wheelchair basketball pioneer
William "Ray" Werner joined the Marine Corps on December 8, 1941. Two years later Ray's mother received the official Marine Corps letter dated September 14, 1943, which read, "My dear Mrs. Warner: . . . your son, Private First class William R. Werner, Jr. U.S. Marine Corp Reserve, sustained a fracture of the third lumbar vertebrae on 20 July 1943 and was transferred to a hospital on 7 August 1943 for further medical treatment." Ray had been hit in the back by a Japanese sniper in the battle of New Georgia in the Solomon Islands and received the Purple Heart for his injuries. Ray would never walk again.
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