A one-legged, Iraq War veteran has taken it upon himself to clear sidewalks in his snowy Nebraska community — and he does it with his wheelchair.
But this is not your typical wheelchair.
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The motorized monster, with tank treads instead of wheels, was supposed to be for off-road adventure but Anderson decided last year to turn it into a machine of goodwill.
He added a snow blade that he can adjust to different levels and he says it only takes a couple of hours after a typical Omaha snowfall to blaze a trail along the sidewalks to the local elementary school.
The easy-going vet, with a personalized license plate on his pick-up reading “HOPALONG,” brushes aside the praise as easily as his snowplow-wheelchair clears the slush.
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He calls the chore “very gratifying,” because it gives him a chance to pay it forward to a community that supported him as a wounded warrior coming home.
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