Mr. Haidari said he had been deeply hurt when no one from the army called to check on him after he was wounded. “I served the Afghan Army and my country, but now I’m no one to them because I can’t do anything for them,” he said. “They don’t care that I lost my legs because of the war.”Even so, he is determined to persevere. When he saw a legless army veteran in Kabul using his hands to drive a retrofitted car, it inspired him to design a similar device. But Mr. Haidari hectored him, and he relented.

Source: New York Times January 26, 2020 21:56 UTC