Cameron Clapp - WOW

I read about this in the www.nytimes.com this a.m.

Here's a teaser - read the entire article. The kid also has his own web page. He mentions Hanger Orthotics - I wonder if that is the same Hanger Orthotics that Michael goes to for his leg brace....

Cyberbodies
Robo-Legs
By MICHEL MARRIOTT
Published: June 20, 2005
BLOND and buff, Cameron Clapp is a teenage star.

Dressed fashionably in a faded T-shirt, baggy shorts and sneakers, he recently strolled the crowded sidewalks of Times Square. He walked confidently, flashing the megawatt smile that brightens his Web site and various photographs in newspapers and magazines that have chronicled his story as he travels the country.

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Mr. Clapp lost both his legs above the knee and his right arm just short of his shoulder after falling onto train tracks almost five years ago near his home in Grover Beach, Calif. After years of rehabilitation and trying a series of prosthetics, each more technologically sophisticated than the last, he finally found his legs.

The above is from the New York Times - go read it.