![]() demonstrated through the deeds of his life that all people matter and even those who look the least able to get the job done can, in fact, do the job better than you. Armes taught me was that disabled people were spectacular: You take away a piece of them and all the other parts of the person become ten times stronger.Īs a young boy growing up in White Bread Nebraska - where mental equanimity and physical identicalness were more valued than individuality - that was an important worldly lesson to learn in an early life.Instead of being afraid of people who were unlike me because of Race or culture or ethnicity or social status or disability, Jay J. was so popular in the 1970’s that he had an entire line of Ideal action toys dedicated to his life’s work and achievements despite his disability and I bought them all and played with them all: losing his hands in what I seem to remember was a terrible childhood accident with TNT, to the success of recovering Marlon Brando’s son Christian from the clutches of a kidnapper. I loved reading every minute of the book - from the horror of J. Armes, was able to shoot a gun with hooks for hands. I remember holding the hardcover book in my hands and wondering how the man on the cover, Jay J. ![]() Armes, Investigator: The World’s Most Successful Private Eye written in 1976 and published by Macmillan. ![]() One of my favorite books growing up was Jay J. ![]()
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