In the hospital, “I started reading a lot–it was a way to kill time,” Szumowski recalls. NLS provides playback equipment for audio books received in the mail, and there’s an app that makes listening to downloaded books on smart devices a cinch.īetter yet, it’s all free! And by law, Veterans–whether or not their visual impairment or disability is service-related–go to the front of the line at NLS. Through its national network of cooperating libraries, NLS circulates books and magazines in braille or audio formats, delivered by postage-free mail or instantly downloadable. NLS serves people like Szumowski who are blind or have low vision, as well as serving people with physical disabilities–people who have had a stroke, for example, or have suffered a traumatic brain injury–that makes it difficult to read regular print. Szumowski was still recovering from his wounds when he was introduced to NLS, the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled. He went on to be a prosecutor in the San Diego District Attorney’s office and then a San Diego County Superior Court judge-a position he held for 18 years until he retired in 2016. He worked for a time as a benefits counselor for VA in San Diego, Calif., and later helped start the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program there.
VA Medical Center, Szumowski was accepted to the University of Denver law school. His tank took a direct hit from a rocket-propelled grenade, and the fragmentation wounds left Szumowski totally blind.Īfter recovering at Walter Reed Medical Center and the Edward Hines Jr. David Szumowski had been in Vietnam only 40 days when his tank platoon was attacked during a recovery mission near the Michelin rubber plantation northwest of Saigon.
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