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We’ve blogged before about Dick and Rick Hoyt – a father and son triathlon\/marathon team – son Rick has cerebral palsy:<\/a><\/p>\n

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When Rick Hoyt was 15, he communicated something to his father that changed both their lives. "Dad," the mute quadriplegic wrote in his computer after his father pushed him in a wheelchair in a five-kilometer race, "I felt like I wasn’t handicapped." <\/p>\n

Rick, now 37, has had cerebral palsy since birth. But he has always been treated simply as one of the family, included by his now-divorced parents in almost everything brothers Rob and Russell did. <\/p>\n

"They told us to put Rick away, in an institution, (because) he’s going to be nothing but a vegetable for the rest of his life," his father remembers. <\/p>\n

"We said, ‘No, we’re not going to do that. We’re going to bring Rick home and bring him up like any other child,’" says Dick Hoyt<\/a>, 59, a retired lieutenant colonel with the Air National Guard. "And this is what we have done." <\/p>\n

And how. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now- a video. Watch. Have tissues ready. Be inspired to love – deeper.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Team Hoyt website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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